Question

Someone Please Help. :( A scientist observes a Petri dish containing a number of bacteria. On the first day, the dish had 300 bacteria. On the second day, the dish had 1,200 bacteria. On the third day, the dish had 4,800 bacteria. If the pattern continues, how many bacteria will the dish have on the fourth day? on the nth day?

Answer 1

What type of pattern do you see in that?
300
1200
4800

Answer 2

4th day is 19200 and nth is 4n-100

Answer 3

@Christhewiz187 ... please don't just give the answer... explain it so they can understand