SOLUTION: For a biology lab you are looking at the growth of a bacterial colony. If your teacher started with 1 bacterium that grows at a rate of 4% every hour and by 2:15 pm when you have c

Question 1148402: For a biology lab you are looking at the growth of a bacterial colony. If your teacher started with 1 bacterium that grows at a rate of 4% every hour and by 2:15 pm when you have class there are 1200 bacteria, what time did your teacher start the experiment? Show Work
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, how long ago

about 7.54 days before.
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