A colony of bacteria is grown under ideal conditions in a laboratory so that the population increases exponentially with time. At the end of 3 h there are 10,000 bacteria. At the end of 5 h there are 40,000 bacteria. How many bacteria were present initially?
AAAaannndd the bot gets it wrong yet again!
the population doubles every hour.
so there were 1250 to begin with:
1250, 2500, 5000, 10,000, 20,000, 40,000