SOLUTION: i just need help setting up the problem... a virus is turning 25000 people sick every minute, the world population is about 6.5 billion. how many days will it take the whole world

Question 339152: i just need help setting up the problem... a virus is turning 25000 people sick every minute, the world population is about 6.5 billion. how many days will it take the whole world to get sick?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In one minute 25,000 people are sick. In two minutes, 2*25,000=50,000 people are sick. In three minutes, 3*25,000=75,000 people are sick.

This pattern continues. In 'x' minutes (ie some unknown amount of time), 25000x people are sick. Since 6.5 billion = 6.5*10^9, and we want 25000x to be equal to 6.5 billion, this means that

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