A certain radioactive material follows the law of exponential growth. If between noon and 2 pm the population triples, at what time should the population become 100 times what it was at noon?

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A certain radioactive material follows the law of exponential growth. If between noon and 2 pm the population triples, at what time should the population become 100 times what it was at noon?

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