The number of bacteria in a culture is increasing according to the law of exponential growth. After 2 hours, there are 100 bacteria, and after 4 hours, there are 400 bacteria. How many bacteria will there be after 5 hours?
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What fraction of one year is 8 months

Radii ok and nl are perpendicular to om because of the radius-tangent theorem. by definition of perpendicular, angles kom and lnm are right angles. this means that triangles kom and lnm are right triangles. angle lmn is common to both right triangles, so by the triangles kom and lnm are similar.

[10 points, algebra 2-simplifying complex fractions]according to my answer key the restrictions are -1 and 4. but why not positive 1?