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Juan starts a bacteria culture and records the number of bacteria in the Petri dish for the first couple of hours.
Hours Bacteria
0
160
1
320
2
640
If the pattern continues, how many bacteria can he expect to find after 17 h?
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Answer:

  20,971,520

Step-by-step explanation:

The population is doubling every hour, so after 17 hours it will be the initial population (160) multiplied by 2^17 = 131,072.

After 17 hours, he can expect to find 160×131072 = 20,971,520 bacteria.

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