A certain bacterial culture grows in such a way that each hour the increase in the number of bacteria in the culture is 60% of the total number present at the beginning of the hour. Let yn be the number of bacteria in the culture after n hours.If there were 10,000 bacteria originally, then after twenty-four hours the number of bacteria most closely approximates

A. 79,228,162
B. 792,281,625
C. 892,291
D. 89,228,162
E. none of these


Answer: B

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