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When it comes to bacteria growing by binary fission, its generation time will be the time interval required for the cells to divide. The formula for generation time would be G=t/3.3log(b/B). 

G would represent the generation time

t represents the time interval in hours, minutes

b represents the number of bacteria at the end of a time interval

B is the number of bacteria at the beginning of the time interval 

a) What would be the generation time of the bacteria population that increases from 103 - 106 cells of 5 hours of growth

b)If the growth interval was 4 hours and the generation time was for 18 minutes; what would be the increase in the bacteria population?

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