SOLUTION: A culture of bacterial triples in size every four hours. If the bacteria population is estimated to be three million now, what will it be one day from now?

Question 1043340: A culture of bacterial triples in size every four hours. If the bacteria population is estimated to be three million now, what will it be one day from now?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A culture of bacterial triples in size every four hours. If the bacteria population is estimated to be three million now, what will it be one day from now?
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Note:: one day = 24 hrs = 6*4 hrs
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A(6) = 3mil*(3)^6 = (3mil)(729) = 2187million = 2billion 187million
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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