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bacteria took 1hour and 40minutes to fill the inital bottle.Expalin how it only took 10minutes to fill 3 additional empty bottles

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Apparently, the bacteria is growing exponentially, doubling in volume every 5 minutes.

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If it took 100 minutes to fill the initial bottle, that bottle must have been 2^20 ≈ 1 million times the volume of the initial sample of bacteria.
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