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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.
Let that there are initially 100 bacteria.
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 .