Insects in a colony
The number of insects in a colony doubles each week.
If there were 100 insects in the colony at the start of the first week:
How many would there be after 6 weeks?
After how many weeks would there first be more than 100,000?
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You just need to carry on following the pattern:
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This will show you that on the 6th week, there would be 3200 ants.
You can also see that on the 8th week, would there be more than 100,000