SOLUTION: A bacteria culture initially contains 2500 bacteria and doubles every half hour. Round your answers to at least 1 decimal place. Find the size of the bacteria population after

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Question 976712: A bacteria culture initially contains 2500 bacteria and doubles every half hour. Round your answers to at least 1 decimal place.
Find the size of the bacteria population after 80 minutes?
Find the size of the bacteria population after 10 hours?
I have the formula for doubling but am i doing it by 30 min? if so how do i write that in my exponent.
Answer by FrankM(1040) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
B=2500(2)^(t/30)
B=2500(2)^(80/30)
B=2500(2)^(80/30)
15874.0

B=2500(2)^(t/30)
B=2500(2)^(600/30)
B=2500(2)^(20)
2,621,440,000