SOLUTION: A strain of Bacteria that is currently growing on your kitchen counter doubles every 20 minutes. Assuming that you start with one single bacterium sitting on your counter, how many
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Question 1162535: A strain of Bacteria that is currently growing on your kitchen counter doubles every 20 minutes. Assuming that you start with one single bacterium sitting on your counter, how many bacteria would be present at the end of 150 minutes? Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source):
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A strain of Bacteria that is currently growing on your kitchen counter doubles every 20 minutes. Assuming that you start with one single bacterium sitting on your counter, how many bacteria would be present at the end of 150 minutes?
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The doubling time is 20 minutes.
150 minutes is 7.5 of these periods.
180 cells after those 150 minutes.
(the computation would give 181)