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Bacteria can grow rapidly. If every hour the bacteria doubles, what would be the equation for the amount of bacteria after x hours if there were initially 100 bacteria?

Bacteria can grow rapidly. If every hour the bacteria doubles, what would be the equation-example-1
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Explanation:

it's gonna be A, C is an equation that shows the replication of bacterias in an arithmetic progression, A shows the replication in a exponential progression.

if you would like to input it, in the first hour, x = 1, so 2¹ = 2 × 100, 200, so we can see it doubled, So A is the answer

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Answer: option 3 most likely

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