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Bacteria count after forty more minutes

Question

A colony of bacteria doubles in size every 1010 minutes. It has 200200 cells at the 5555-minute mark. How many cells does it have at the 9595-minute mark?

Short answer

32003200. From 5555 to 9595 minutes is 4040 minutes, i.e. four doublings, so 200×24=3200200\times2^4=3200.

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