Answer: the doubling time of a population of flies is 4 hours. by what factor does the population increase in 25 hours? By what factor does the population increase in 1 week? can someone answer?
You must distribute first. 8 times (3x-2)= 24x-16 2 times (12x-5.5)= 24x-11 What you have left is (24x-16)-(24x-11) 24x-24x=0 -16- -11=-5 The answer is -5