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In a town, the population gets infected with a deadly virus that doubles every 3 days....
In a town, the population gets infected with a deadly virus that doubles every 3 days. If initially, on March 1st, 2016, only 10 people were infected. What was the total number of people infected by the end of the month of March?
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