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Problem #73 MEDIUM

The Bacteria Colony

Amazon Netflix Exponential Growth Logic

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A biologist places a single bacterium in a petri dish at 9:00 AM. The colony doubles in size exactly every 10 minutes. By 10:00 AM, the dish is completely full. At what time was the dish exactly half full? At what time was it exactly one-quarter full? If the biologist had started with two bacteria instead of one, at what time would the dish have been completely full?

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