Question

In a sterile environment, a single cell of bacteria is placed on a sandwich for an experiment. The amount of bacteria doubles each hour.

Complete the following sentence that describes the relationship between the units of bacteria grown and the time required for its growth, t, in hours.

After
hour(s), the bacteria count on the sandwich reaches 2,048 units.

Answer 1

11 hours

Explanation:

1 doubled is 2. 2 doubled is 4. 4 doubled is 8. 8 doubled is 16. 16 doubled is 32. 32 doubled is 64. 64 doubled is 128. 128 doubled is 256. 256 doubled is 512. 512 doubled is 1024. and lastly 1024 doubled is 2048