Hours into study 6/3 0 1/3 2/3 1 4/3 5/3 Population (thousands) 1- e. Use the population context to explain why it makes sense that we define 2 2 to be V 2 and 2 3 as. V/2 f. Another student working on the bacteria population problem makes the following claim: If the population doubles in 1 hour, then half that growth occurs in the first half-hour and the other half occurs in the second half-hour. So for example, we can find the population at 2 by finding the average of the populations at t=0 and t=1