If a certain population of bacteria doubles itself every 10 minutes, how many times bigger will the population be after 1 hour?
A) We need to know the starting population in order to know.
B) 1
C) 6
D) 32
E) 64

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The population doubles every 10 minutes, so in 1 hour (which is 60 minutes), it will double 6 times (60/10 = 6). The population will be 2^6 = 64 times bigger.

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