Clostridium perfringens causes gas gangrene and has avery rapid generation time

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Clostridium perfringens causes gas gangrene and has avery rapid generation time of only nine minutes. Suppose a patienthad a wound with a single contaminating Clostridiumperfringens bacillus. How many C. perfringensbacteria would there be in the wound after just 9 hours ofmultiplying. (Hint: since each generation time or doubling time is9 minutes long and there are 60 minutes in an hour, 9 hours wouldcontain 60 divisions or doublings). I already have the answer 260... I would likeconfirmation by show of work that this is in fact the correctanswer. Clostridium perfringens causes gas gangrene and has avery rapid generation time of only nine minutes. Suppose a patienthad a wound with a single contaminating Clostridiumperfringens bacillus. How many C. perfringensbacteria would there be in the wound after just 9 hours ofmultiplying. (Hint: since each generation time or doubling time is9 minutes long and there are 60 minutes in an hour, 9 hours wouldcontain 60 divisions or doublings). I already have the answer 260... I would likeconfirmation by show of work that this is in fact the correctanswer.

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9X60 = 540MIMUTES /9= 60 DIVISIONS

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