SOLUTION: A certain bacterial culture triples every hour. After 5 hours there are about 8,000 bacteria in this culture. How many bacteria were there before the 5 hours passed? Write a functi
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Question 1075883: A certain bacterial culture triples every hour. After 5 hours there are about 8,000 bacteria in this culture. How many bacteria were there before the 5 hours passed? Write a function to model this situation and solve. Round to the nearest whole number.
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