Question

In a lab, scientists are growing a culture of bacteria. It is known that the

bacteria reproduce exponentially. The culture was started by putting exactly 200 bacterial
cells in a Petri dish. After 2 hours, the number of cells had already reached 800. Determine
the time (in hours) needed for the culture to reach 10000 units.

Answer 1

For the scientists it would take 4 hours to make 1000 units