Two bacterial cultures are kept in identical conditions in a laboratory
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Problem
Two bacterial cultures are kept in identical conditions in a laboratory.
Culture A begins with 1 million cells and its population doubles every 3 hours.
Culture B begins with 0.8 million cells and its population triples every 5 hours.
After 15 hours,
(a) write an exponential expression for the population of each culture,
(b) calculate the population of each culture,
(c) determine which culture has the larger population and by how many millions of cells.