Bacterial populations can grow to enormous numbers in a matter of a few hours with the right conditions. If a bacterial colony doubles size every 15 minutes, how many bacteria will be present after 1 hour if the colony began with 4 bacteria?

5 answers

4, 16, 32, 64, 128
4*2^n
n = 4 quarters of and hour
2^4 = 16
so
4*16 = 64
ah
4 8 16 32 64
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