Fiona started her study of bacteria growth with 1,000 bacteria in a petri dish. After 1 hour, the count was increased to 1,800. After 2 hours, the count was 3,240. After the third hour showed a count of 5,832, Fiona wrote an equation to represent the exponential growth of the bacteria. What exponential growth function did Fiona write?

f(x) = _____ (____)^x