Naomi Simon

Mathematics

15 September, 00:21

A particular bacterial colony doubles its population every 15 hours. A scientist running an experiment is starting with 100

bacteria cells. She expects the number of cells to be given by the formula, where t is the number of hours since the

experiment started.

C = 100 (2 ^t/15)

After how many hours would the scientist expect to have 300 bacteria cells?

Give your answer to the nearest hour.

A) 2 hours

B) 24 hours

C) 1,048,557 hours

D) 104,857,699 hours