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Given information

Given that in every minute, a bacterial cell in a nutrient-broth medium divides into two cells. A culture's starting population is .
Express an expression for the number of cells after hours.
Given that and  

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Observe that the expression for exponentially growth equation is  

Given that and  

Then, the expression for the number of cells after hours is given by

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