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Published on: August 13, 2026
The rate of increase of bacteria in a certain culture is proportional to the number present. If itdoubles in 
hours then in 
hours, its number would be 
times original. Find 
.
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Let 
be the initial population and let the population after 
years be 
. Then
On integrating, we have 
At 
When 
When 
hours, we have
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