SOLUTION: Please Help!! I got how many cells after 5 hours but I am lost on the 6,000,000,000 A cell divides into two identical copies every 4 minutes. How many cells will exist after 5 h

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Question 187871: Please Help!! I got how many cells after 5 hours but I am lost on the 6,000,000,000 A cell divides into two identical copies every 4 minutes. How many cells will exist after 5 hours? Then how long (approximately) it would take to have 6,000,000,000 cells.


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Population formula: P - population of cells, t - time in minutes
































Ans: Takes approximately 129.929 minutes for pop. to reach 6,000,000,000 cells