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A colony of Fruit Flies doubles every 10 minutes. If there are 19 683 Fruit Flies now, how many were present 1 hour ago?

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307.54 would be the answer.
Divide it by 2 six times because there is only sixty minutes in an hour, and dividing that by ten would equate to six.
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