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E. coli bacteria are growing in a hamburger exponentially. initially there are 100,000 bacteria. after 10 minutes there are 150,000. how many are there after an hour?

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The bacteria is growing at a rate of 50,000/10m so in 60 minutes it will be grown to 300,000 plus the initial 100,000, after 1 hour in the hamburger you will have 400,000 coli bacterias
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Answer:

after 60 min there are 1139062.5

Explanation:

Given that:

Initial value: 100.00 (x) when t = 0

After t= 10 minutes, there are 150,000 = 1/5x

After t =20 minutes, there are 225000 = 50000*1.5

after 30 min there are 337500

after 40 min there are 506250

after 50 min there are 759375

after 60 min there are 1139062.5

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