Problema Solution

A biologist finds that the population of a certain type of bacteria doubles each half-hour. An initial culture has 80 bacteria. How long will it take for the number of bacteria to reach 81,920?

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we have  81920 / 80   =  1024 =  2^n     =  2^10  

so 10 half  life 

so  `5 hours  answer