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If a dish of chicken salad got contaminated with 80 Salmonella cells at 9am and Salmonella has a generation time of 30 minutes. How many Salmonella cells will be in the chicken salad when someone has a midnight snack at midnight?

what is the equation and answer?​

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30 * 80 = 540

by midnight the chicken salad will develop 540 cells

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