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a colony of fruit flies doubles every 10 minutes, if there are 19683 fruit flies now how many were present an hour ago

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It would be 1180980 because there is 60 min. in a hour so, 6 times 19683 which equals 1180980
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154 fruit flies a hour ago.
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