An amoeba propagates by simple division; each split takes three minutes to complete. When such an amoeba is put into a glass container with a nutrient fluid, the container is full of amoebas in one hour.

How long would it take for the container to be filled if we start with not one amoeba, but two?

It's really 57 minutes...at first I thought 30, but then I looked at the problem carefully, because lots of problems are like that.

How many amoebas are in the glass container?

Posted by Electricfur on 2005-09-13 02:56:01