Direction: the indicated operation reduce the answer to lowest terms whenever possible.
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Answer:
- At 1pm, the number of bacteria in the dish is 1,000,000
- At 12pm, the number of bacteria in the dish is 500,000
Step-by-step explanation:
Given the information on the table
We are to follow the pattern to determine how many million bacteria were in the dish at 1 p.m. and 12 p.m.
Now:
It therefore means that the bacteria population doubles every hour. Following this pattern and reducing the exponents by 1 backwards, we have:
Therefore:
- At 1pm, the number of bacteria in the dish is 1,000,000
- At 12pm, the number of bacteria is 0.5 million=0.5 X 1,000,000=500,000