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The bacteria in a 11 Liter container double every four minutes. After 57 minutes the container is full. how long did it take to fill a quarter of the container?

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If the bacteria doubles its volume every 4 minutes and we know that at t = 57 minutes the container is full, we can work backwards from there:

If the container is full (V = 100%) at t = 57 min., then it has to be half full (V = 50%) 4 minutes earlier, as it doubles every 4 minutes.

Then, the container was half full at time t = 57 - 4 = 53 min.

Then, if we repeat this analysis, the container would have been filled to a quarter (V = 25%) 4 minutes earlier than it was half full.

That corresponds to time t = 53 - 4 = 49 min.

Answer: 49 minutes.

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