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Here, we're told that we have an ant colony that triples every week.
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And we want to know, we're told that there's 8 ,000 ants at the beginning, and how many weeks will there be 100 ,000? so if it triples every week, that means y is going to be some number that we started with, times 3 to the t, where t is in weeks.
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Well, we're told there is 8 ,000 at the beginning, so that's a.
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So y is going to be 8 ,000 times 3 to the t.
00:26
That will give us the amount of ants in any time.
00:29
We want to know how many weeks will there be 100 ,000? well, let's just say 100 ,000 equals 8 ,000 times 3 to the t...