A culture of bacterial triples in size every four hours. If the bacteria population is estimated to be three million now, what will it be one day from now?

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SPandya · Answer 1 · 2022-12-29T02:40:15+0000

It triples in size every 4 hours, so in 24 hours, there will be 6 triplings.
3 ^ 6 = 729
So, in 24 hours, the population will increase by a factor of 729.
The population will be 729 * 3 million = 2,187 billion.
The answer is 2,187,000,000.

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