SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem A researcher is investigating a specimen of bacteria. She finds that the 1000 bacteria grew o 2,048,000 in 60 hours. How fast does the bacteria

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A researcher is investigating a specimen of bacteria. She finds that the 1000 bacteria grew o 2,048,000 in 60 hours. How fast does the bacteria (a) double? (b) quadruple?

Answer by ikleyn(52803)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Notice that   = 2048 = .



It means that 60 hours = 11 doubling periods.


Hence, one doubling period is   = 5   hours.


And a quadruple period is twice of it, i.e.   hours = 10  hours.

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