Question

A population of bacteria is experiencing exponential growth and doubles in population size every 20 minutes. If there was 1 bacterium at 0 minutes, how many bacteria will there be in 140 minutes? please help for a test worth 20 points

Answer 1

980

Step-by-step explanation:

Because if the bacterium doubles every 20 mins it will multiply 7 times to get to 140 mins.

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