GATE BT 2017 BT Q48: Bioreactor engineering

Growth of a microbe in a test tube is modeled as

, where, X is the biomass, r is the growth rate, and K is the carrying capacity of the environment (

;

). If the value of starting biomass is

, which one of the following graphs qualitatively represents the growth dynamics?

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