Question

An acidophilus culture containing 150 bacteria doubles in population every hour. Write a function representing the bacteria population for every hour that it passes.

Answer 1

doubles in one hour
\[150\times 2\] doubles again in two hours
\[150\times 2^2\]and again
\[150\times 2^3\]
in \(t\) hours you have
\[150\times 2^t\]