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You have a microbiological spread plate with a dilution factor of 10^4 and a colony count of 170 CFUs. If the plate was inoculated with 100 μL of sample, what was the original viable cell count?
Remember: CFU/ mL = number of colonies x dilution factor / volume plated in mL