SOLUTION: a certain species of bacteria triples itself every day. when one of these bacteria is placed in a plastic vessel, in 4 days the plastic vessel becomes exactly full. if 3 of these b

Question 1126324: a certain species of bacteria triples itself every day. when one of these bacteria is placed in a plastic vessel, in 4 days the plastic vessel becomes exactly full. if 3 of these bacteria are placed in the plastic vessel, in how many days will the plastic vessel be full?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
bacterial is a full jar

in 2 days the vessel will be full
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