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Three cells with generation times of 60 minutes are inoculated into a culture medium. how many cells are there after 5 hours?

User Joshbrows
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There should be 15.
Since there are 3 cells and each one has a generation time of 60 minuteswhich is one hour.

Therefore, for every 1hour there are 3 cells .

The you would just multiply 3x5 to get the number of cells after 5 hours, which is 15
User Mahamoutou
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96 cells are left after 5 hrs buddy
boy.
User Climmunk
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