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A certain type of cell doubles every 5 hours. If you started with 38 cells, how manywould you have after 15 hours? (gridded response)

User Thakur Karthik
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First divide 15 hours by 5 :

15/5 = 3

So, we obtain that the cell will double 3 times

since the initial number o f cells is 38

5hours = 38x2 = 76

10 hours = 76x2= 152

15 hours =152 x2 = 304

304 cells

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