SOLUTION: A biologist finds that the population of a certain type of bacteria doubles each half-hour. An initial culture has 90 bacteria. How long will it take for the number of bacteria to

Question 388014: A biologist finds that the population of a certain type of bacteria doubles each half-hour. An initial culture has 90 bacteria.
How long will it take for the number of bacteria to reach 368,640?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

where

So then,

minutes
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