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document.write( "A culture of bacteria has 20 cells in it. The number of cells doubles every 30 minutes. Write the first 5 terms of this sequence and explain where this sequence is arithmetic or geometric and justify your answer. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "20,40,80,160,320,...<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Geometric with a = 20 and r = 2<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Stan H.<BR>\n" );
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