URGENT QUESTION

Question

A dirty bowl on your counter starts to grow bacteria that doubles every 10 minutes. Assuming you started with one single bacteria cell, how much bacteria would be present on your bowl at the end of 180 minutes?

Answer 1

doubles every 10 minutes how many after 180 minutes?

starts with 1

in 10 minutes 2

in 20 4

in 30 8

40 16

50 32

10x 2^x

180 = 10(18) = 2^18 = 262,144

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