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A scientist has discovered an organism that produces five offspring exactly one hour after its own birth, and then goes on to live for one week. Each replicated organism also replicates at the same rate. At hour one, there is one organism. At hour two, there are five more organisms. How many total organisms are there at hour seven?

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Answer:

19,531

Explanation:

yeah.

User Intelekt
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I got 20,737 but I could be wrong so I will attach my algorithm and work.
A scientist has discovered an organism that produces five offspring exactly one hour-example-1
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