SOLUTION: A culture of 12 bacteria is started, and the number of bacteria will double every hour. In about how many hours will there be 5,00,000 bacteria
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A culture of 12 bacteria is started, and the number of bacteria will double every hour. In about how many hours will there be 5,00,000 bacteria
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5,000,000 = 12*2^t
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2^t = 5000000/12
t(log(2)) = log(5000000/12)
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t = 5.6198/log(2)
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t = 18.668 hours
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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