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A colony of 10,000 bacteria doubles in size every 35 hours. What will the population be 70 hours from now?

 Mar 8, 2017
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The answer would be 40,000 bacteria at 70 hours.

 

Explaination: You have 10,000 bacteria when you start out. When you reach 35hrs it will double and become 20,000 bacteria. Then conviently another 35 hours is a total of 70 hours and you will have a total of 40,000 (20,000 * 2) bacteria.

 Mar 9, 2017

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