Question

Harriet is cultivating a strain of bacteria in a petri dish. Currently, she has 103 bacteria in the dish. The bacteria divide every two hours such that the number of bacteria has doubled by the end of every second hour. How many bacteria will Harriet have in the dish at the end of 6 hours?

10x24
103 x6
203
103 x12

Answer 1

203 woukd be the answer that your looking for

Answer 2

The answer is 20^3 because by the end of 6 hours the number of bacteria has doubled every two hours meaning that after the first two hours you have 2000, then another 2000 after two hours, then 4000 after the next two hours, ans finally at the end of 6 hours, you have 8000 bacteria aka 20^3

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