Suppose that every hour there are two new bacteria in a


Question: Suppose that every hour there are two new bacteria in a colony for each bacterium that was present the previous hour, and that all bacteria 2 hours old die. The colony starts with 100 new bacteria.

a) Set up a recurrence relation for the number of bacteria present after n hours.

b) What is the solution of this recurrence relation?

c) When will the colony contain more than 1 million bacteria?

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