SOLUTION: A culture of bacterial triples in size every four hours. If the bacteria population is estimated to be three million now, what will it be one day from now?

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Question 1043340: A culture of bacterial triples in size every four hours. If the bacteria population is estimated to be three million now, what will it be one day from now?
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A culture of bacterial triples in size every four hours. If the bacteria population is estimated to be three million now, what will it be one day from now?
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Note:: one day = 24 hrs = 6*4 hrs
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A(6) = 3mil*(3)^6 = (3mil)(729) = 2187million = 2billion 187million
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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