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Help Needed

Day 3,222, 22:50 • Published in Cyprus Cyprus

• by pipo lolo

Hello friends,

I need a little bit of help here.

I have to solve a puzzle for school and i cant find the answer.

Question is "A scientist is experimenting with bacteria that are one micron in diameter and that reproduce by dividing every minute into two bacteria. At 12:00 PM, she puts a single organism in a container. At precisely 1:00 PM, the container is full. At what time was the container half full?"

Can anyone help me out?

Thank you.

Comments

JamArber Day 3,223, 00:55

Pretty easy question .. that can be found by this formula :
http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-impregnable-mathematics-crazy-mathematics-formulas-70048909.jpg

and according to my calculation the answer is 12:59

RomyGr Day 3,223, 01:15

Anan

Rauf Raif Denktas Day 3,223, 01:22

anan

Kapetan Markos Vafeiadis Day 3,223, 01:31

The question is incomlete.
Not all data is given, so it cannot be answered.
For examle what bacteria are we talking about and where did they come from?
Because if they came for example from laswn's butthole, they were always in the container, but just hiding in the shadows.