SOLUTION: Flowers in a basket double themselves after every minute. In an hour the basket is full. The basket would be half full after-

Question 823870: Flowers in a basket double themselves after every minute. In an hour the basket is full. The basket would be half full after-
Answer by josgarithmetic(39615) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
m in minutes, A is amount of flowers, assuming initially 1 flower. This is exponential growth but ignoring the continuousness of the growth.

Full basket after 60 minutes = 1 hour;
, a very large number.

Find m when .

------------fifty-nine minutes
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