A bacterial cell divides every 20 min. After time period of 3 hrs,how many bacterial cell will be there?'

1 Answer
Apr 6, 2018

#2^9=512# bacterial cells

Explanation:

Assuming that it divides through mitosis, it will duplicate. And so, it does that every #20# minutes.

I will that process a "trial". One "trial" takes #20# minutes. So, after #3# hours, there have been:

#(60*3)/20=9# trials.

Therefore, there will be #2^9=512# bacteria.