SOLUTION: A culture of 11 bacteria is started, and the number of bacteria will double every hour. In exactly how many hours, minutes, and seconds will there be 3,000,000,000 bacteria?
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Question 1018165: A culture of 11 bacteria is started, and the number of bacteria will double every hour. In exactly how many hours, minutes, and seconds will there be 3,000,000,000 bacteria?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = nuber of bacteria after hrs
Take the log base 10 of both sides
In 28 hrs 1 min 22 sec there will
be bacteria
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check:
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The % error is:
This is a little more than
Slightly more than .001 % off
I think it's close enough
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