A biologist is studying a population of bacteria. The function models the number of bacteria in a petri dish, where is the number of hours since the experiment began. Which of the following is the best interpretation of the -intercept of the graph of in the -plane?
The bacteria population increased by 15% every hour.
The initial number of bacteria in the petri dish was 350.
The maximum number of bacteria the petri dish can hold is 350.
The number of hours it took for the population to reach 350 was 1.
