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8 years ago
the population of an ant colony doubles every day and a half. a biologist predicts the ant colony will eventually overtake a flowerbed. what is the number of hours between the time the flowerbed is half full and the time the flowerbed is completely full?
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8 years ago
If you insist on working it out with formal mathematics.  You'd have to use the natural exponential function, that is, y2 = y1 e^(kt).
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8 years ago
You'll need to use the formula:

y = a e nt

   • a = initial
   • n = rate (% → decimal)
   • e = 2.718281828...
   • t = number of periods, time

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