Quote Originally Posted by lancelot854 View Post
Two bacteria colonies are cultivated in a laboratory. The first colony has a doubling time of 2 hours and the second a doubling time of 3 hours. Initially, the first colony contains 1000 bacteria and the second colony 3,000 bacteria. At what time t will sizes of the colonies be equal?

We never learned this in class, and he expects us to know it for the next one. I have no idea what to do here. :S
This should tell you that at time $$ t the colony size N(t) is:

N(t)=N(0)2^{t/t_2}

where $$ t_2 is the colony doubling time and N(0) is the colony size at $$ t=0

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