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The number of bacteria in a certain culture doubles every hour. If there were 30 bacteria present in the culture originally, how many bacteria will be present at the end of `2^("nd")` hour, `4^("th")` hour and `n^("th")` hour ?

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` = 30(2)^(n)`
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