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A lab experiment measures the number of organisms at 8 am every day. Starting with 2 organisms on the first day, the number of organisms on any day is...

CAT Medium Sequence & Series (AP, GP, HP) Integer

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A lab experiment measures the number of organisms at 8 am every day. Starting with 2 organisms on the first day, the number of organisms on any day is equal to 3 more than twice the number on the previous day. If the number of organisms on the

nn
th day exceeds one million, then the lowest possible value of
nn
is:

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