Homework Help: algebra

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 4:08pm.

neil was growing a culture of bacteria for a biology experiment. he noticed that the population doubled after 90 minutes. if the population grows exponentially, how many times the original population will there be after six hours?

algebra - Henry, Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 10:05pm
Looks like base 2 numerals:

90min. = 1.5h,

6h / 1.5h = 4.

Po = 2^0 = 1 = Initial pop.

P = 2^4 = 16 times Po.

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