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10 Nov 2021

Given information

A certain bacteria population is known to double every three hours under ideal conditions.
 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
Suppose that there are initially 100 bacteria.
 It is needed to find the size of the population after 15 hours.
The initial size of the population is 100 bacteria and is double every 3 hours, so
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
   
 
Therefore the size of the population after 15 hours is 3200.

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