Question

Someone pls help me i need to find the amount of hours

Answer 1

5.65 hours

Explanation:

Given: Initial number of bacteria = 1000

N=1000(2)

To find: Time taken to: increase to 50,000

Solution: N=1000(2)

• 50,000=1000(2)
• Taking log,
• log 50,000 = log 1000(2)
• 4.7 = 3 + _ log 2
• _ = 1.7/log 2 = 5.65

Answer = 5.65 hours

_ = symbol after the two in the brackets that is high up and smaller.