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A strain of bacteria undergoes fission every 30 minutes. How long would it take 10 bacteria to increase 640 bacteria?

A) 3hrs
B) 6hrs
C) 18hrs
D) 64hrs
Please explain how you got the answer and why? Please and thank you I really appreciate the time you took to reply

User Abin
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Answer:

A) 3hrs

Explanation:

Fission is the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts.

So, we're going to continuously multiply our answers by 2 until we get 360

10 x 2 = 20 30min

20 x 2 = 40 1hr

40 x 2 = 80 1hr 30min

80 x 2 = 160 2hrs

160 x 2 = 320 2hrs 30min

320 x 2 = 630 3hrs

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