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Never mind, I found out how to do it, but it appears that your answer is wrong?

So I think we might use the hockey stick thereom thing...

it's C(n+k-1, k-1).

So if the twins each get 0, we have 6 candy, 6+(5-2)-1 = 8. 5-2-1=2. C(8,2).

We also get C(6,2), C(4,2), C(2,2), and c(0,2) with increasing values

 Adding these together we get 50.

Based on my knowledge on bacteria, the growth isn't uniform, but it doesn't make sense unless if a LOT die every hour... I'll do two cases for each scenario.

If the growth is uniform, 7200-6000 = 1200. Since it's 3 hours, 1200/3 = 400/hour. I'm not sure if it's 19 hours AFTER the original 3 hours or after the starting time. Either multiply 400 by 19 or 16. 

If the growth isn't uniform: I'm pretty sure bacteria doubles... but there are a bunch of cases so I'm afraid I can't help you... sorry... if you have anyquestions please ask...

HH

Not sure which programming language... i can help you in Java, C/C+/C++/C# and maybe python but I don't know what language you want it in. Also, the platform(processing, visual code, XCode, Arduino IDE) would be helpful...

When CPhill makes a question look SO easy: every looks down...