Multiple Choice
Your brother goes on to explain the concept of decimal reduction (D-value) time to you. To illustrate his point, he tells you that if the D-value for Giardia was 3 minutes and the starting number of cells was 104, the time it would take to eliminate all of the Giardia cells would be
A) 15 minutes.
B) 3 minutes.
C) 10 minutes.
D) 9 minutes.
E) 12 minutes.
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