SOLUTION: A viral infection is discovered by the CDC in Atlanta to have a doubling time of only 36 hours. Assuming there are currently 50 cases, how long will it be before there are over 100

Question 1033836: A viral infection is discovered by the CDC in Atlanta to have a doubling time of only 36 hours. Assuming there are currently 50 cases, how long will it be before there are over 1000 cases of infection?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If we call a period of 36 hours our time t, then we can write

Now solve for t...we get
and
t = 4.32 periods of 36 hours which is
155.6 hours
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