Mathematics

Problem

A bacterial culture doubles every 2 hours. If the initial population is 500 cells, what is the population after 7 hours? a)

4.00\times 10^{3}\text{ cells}

1.00\times 10^{4}\text{ cells}

5.66\times 10^{3}\text{ cells}

4.88\times 10^{3}\text{ cells}