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Bacterial Growth Model

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A biologist is studying the growth of a certain species of bacteria. The growth can be modeled by the linear function:

$$ y = 4x + 10 $$

where y is the total number of bacteria, and x is the number of hours since the start of the observation. If the biologist checks the culture after 3 hours, how many bacteria will she observe?

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