A skin cell divides by mitosis once every day to produce new skin cells. how many days it would take to produce 16 skin cells from one skin cell?

1 Answer
May 9, 2018

It would take #4# days.

Explanation:

You can count out the days:

You can use a power of #2# to solve this:

#2^4=16#.

Or count out the days:

After #1# day, you have #2# cells.
After #2# days, you have #4# cells.
After #3# days, you have #8# cells.
After #4# days, you have #color(red)(16)# cells.