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a colony of 300 bacteria doubles each day. write an explicit formula to determine how many bacteria there would be on the nth day. how would you do this?
13 years ago

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Reiny
amount = 300(2)^n , where n is the number of days.

so on the nth day you would have 300(2)^n
13 years ago

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