Final answer:
The number of bacteria in petri dish A is 64 times greater than petri dish B. To find how many times greater the number of bacteria in petri dish A is than in petri dish B, we divide the population in A by the population in B. However, without specific numbers provided, we cannot determine the exact answer from the given options.
Step-by-step explanation:
To determine how many times greater the number of bacteria in petri dish A is than petri dish B, we need to compare their population sizes. In the information provided, one liter of a petri dish can hold approximately 10^16 bacteria. If the doubling time is 10 minutes, the population would double 2^6 times in 1 hour, resulting in 64 times more bacteria. Therefore, after 24 hours, the population in dish A would be 64 times greater than dish B. None of the given options (a, b, c, d) accurately represent the answer.
To find how many times greater the number of bacteria in petri dish A is than in petri dish B, we divide the population in A by the population in B. However, without specific numbers provided, we cannot determine the exact answer from the given options.
The question relates to exponential growth of bacteria and how to calculate the difference in population size between two samples. To determine how many times greater the number of bacteria in petri dish A is than in petri dish B, we must know the precise population size in each dish. However, based on the information given, which illustrates exponential growth, and knowing that after 24 doubling cycles the population increases from 1,000 to more than 16 billion bacteria, we can use this understanding to compare the magnitude of population between two different scenarios.
If one scenario states that after a certain amount of time there are 1,000,000 bacteria and another has 250 bacteria, for example, we would calculate the factor of difference between the two by dividing the larger number by the smaller number. Thus, if petri dish A contains 1,000,000 bacteria and petri dish B contains 250 bacteria, then petri dish A has 1,000,000 / 250 = 4,000 times more bacteria than petri dish B.
Without the exact numbers from the dishes, we cannot provide a definitive answer to which multiple-choice option is correct, and therefore must refrain from selecting one.