a culture of bacteria doubles ever hour. If the colony contained 25 bacteria at noon, how many bacteria will the culture contain
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Using a calculator, 1200/180 = 6.67 approximately
If you use long division, then you'll get what you see in the diagram below
The 6's go on forever after the decimal point, but if you round to two decimal places, then you'll get that approximate value of 6.67
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If you want a remainder, then 1200/180 = 6 remainder 120
You can think of it like you having 1200 cookies and 180 friends. Each friend will get 6 whole cookies and there will be 120 left over as the remainder.
