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Use the attached dilution scheme for 1 and 2, each problem has to calculated

1. If the original culture contains 5 x 10 ^9 cfu/ml, how many cfu/ml are in each tube? How many colonies are on each plate?

2. If tube C contains 60,000 cfu/ml, how many cfu/ml are in the original culture, how many cfu/ml are in the other tubes, and how many colonies are on each plate?

3. How would you inoculate a plate to obtain a 1:100 dilution?

4. How would you inoculate a plate to obtain a 1:50 dilution?

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