A population of bacteria contains 80 bacteria in generation 1 and triples in population every generation. This sequence represents the number of
bacteria for the first few generations:
80, 240, 720, ...
What is the explicit formula for the number of bacteria in generation n?
A. a(n) = 80 + (n - 1)3
B. a(n) = 3.801-1
C. a(n) = 3 + (n-1)80
D. a(n) = 80.30-1