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Marcus is observing bacteria multiply.every 15 seconds,there are 10 times more bacteria than before.if there are 10 bacteria now,Marcus predicts there are will be 3,000,000 bacteria in 2 minutes.is Marcus correct?explain

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No he is wrong there will be 150000000 bacteria on it at 2 minutes

WORK:

2 min=120 sec
120 divided by 15=8
15 times 10 (7 times)
u get 150,000,000


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