A culture of bacteria triples every hour. If the colony contained 50 bacteria at noon, how many bacteria will the culture contain at 5:00pm?

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Answer:

12,150

Explanation:

50 times 3 is 150.

150 times 3 is 450.

Continue doing this until you've done it five times.

Jathanism answered Nov 1, 2021

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