The doubling period of a bacterial population is 20 minutes. At time t = 120 minutes, the bacterial population was 60000.

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The doubling period of a bacterial population is 20 minutes. At time t = 120 minutes, the bacterial
population was 60000.
What was the initial population at time t = 0?
Find the size of the bacterial population after 3 hours.
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