SOLUTION: A biologist finds that the population of a certain type of bacteria doubles each half-hour. An initial culture has 120 bacteria.
How long will it take for the number of bacteria t
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Question 387792: A biologist finds that the population of a certain type of bacteria doubles each half-hour. An initial culture has 120 bacteria.
How long will it take for the number of bacteria to reach 122,880?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
, assuming t is in hours.
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hours.
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