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14 April, 11:15

A certain colony of bacteria triples in length every 10 minutes. It's length is now 1 millimeter. how long will it be in 40 minutes?

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  1. 14 April, 11:25
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    So we know that the bacteria grows 3x as much every ten minutes. From this we know that it'll be 3 mm in 20 minute. Continuing the pattern, we can figure out that in 40 minutes the bacteria will be 81 mm.

    The pattern: 10min - 3 20min - 9 30min - 27 40min - 81
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