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The population of bacteria in a culture is growing exponentially. At 12:00 there were 80 bacteria present and by 4:00 PM there were 500 bacteria. Find an exponential function that models this growth, and use it to predict the size of the population at 8:00 PM.
What is The exponential function is f(t) = 80 e^(.4581 t). There will be 3,124 bacteria at 8:00 PM.