Mushrooms produce a tremendous number of spores. However, very few spores go on to establish a new mushroom colony. A "colony" is actually a little bunch of fuzzy-looking cells called a mycelium. Let's say a particular mushroom produces a billion spores in a day. If half of one percent of those spores successfully produces a new mycelium, how many of the spores were successful
(1/2)(.01)(10^9) = 5 million
To find out how many spores were successful, follow these steps:
Step 1: Calculate half of one percent of the total number of spores:
0.5% of a billion = (0.5/100) * 1,000,000,000 = 5,000,000
Step 2: The result from Step 1 represents the number of successful spores.
Therefore, out of the billion spores produced, 5,000,000 spores were successful in establishing a new mycelium colony.
To calculate the number of spores that were successful in producing a new mycelium, we first need to find 0.5% of one billion.
Step 1: Convert 0.5% to decimal form
0.5% = 0.5 / 100 = 0.005
Step 2: Multiply the decimal value by the total number of spores
0.005 * 1,000,000,000 = 5,000,000
Therefore, if half of one percent of the billion spores successfully produces a new mycelium, there would be 5 million successful spores.