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  1. November 16th 2009, 06:16 PM #1
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    Question The no. of bacteria...

    The number of bacteria in a culture has been doubling every four hours and is currently 380000.How fast is the bacteria population growing right now,in terms of number of bacteria per hour?
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  2. November 16th 2009, 10:29 PM #2
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    Does it have any other information like how many bacteria that were there to begin with or what hour it is?
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  3. November 18th 2009, 12:16 PM #3
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    Iam afraid this is what the question has.No other information.Is there any way we can solve this?
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