A bacterial population flows the “law of exponential change". If between noon and 2:00 PM the population triples, at what time would the population become 100 times what it was at noon? At 10:00 AM, what was the percentage of the bacterial population in terms of population at noon?

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A bacterial population flows the "law of exponential change". If between noon and
2:00 PM the population triples, at what time would the population become 100
times what it was at noon? At 10:00 AM, what was the percentage of the bacterial
population in terms of population at noon?
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