if there are 5 cells and each cell divides into 2 how many cells will you have total in 3 days?
How often do the cells divide? Every 20 minutes? Or every day?
If it is every day, then we have:
5 X (2^3 - 1)=35 cells after 3 days(which doesn't make sense!).
+130536 Assuming that the division is daily and the first division occurs on the first day....the answer is given by :
C = 5(2)n......where C is the number of cells after the nth day....so after three days, we have
C = 5(2)3 = 5 * 8 = 40 cells
Start with 5 each cell divides into two: at the end of the day you have 10
Day 2 Start with 10 at the end of the day you will have 20
Day 3 Start with 20 at the end of the day you will have 40
Assumptions: No cell dies and they continue to split into two cells Cells divide daily
