The number of bacteria in a petri dish is 524 and growing at a rate of 7% every month.

How bacteria will there be in 7 months?

Round to the nearest whole number.

To determine the number of bacteria present in the petri dish after 7 months, we multiply the original number (population) by the growth rate raised to the number of months.

total number of bacteria = (524) (1.07^7)

The answer to the equation above is 841.43. Rounding off our answer to the nearest whole number, the answer would be 841.