Stuck on Population Growth Homework

paigemccand

Hello, my homework for computer class says

"• In a biology experiment, Cory finds that a sample of
microorganisms doubles in population every 12 hours. He
wants to know how many hours it will take to reach a
certain microorganism population level if he starts with
1000 organisms each time.
• WAM (write a method) to receive an integer N representing a desired
organism population level, and determine how many
hours it will be until the population level reaches N or
more organisms."

I can't seem to figure this out at all, the code I have so far reads as follows:

public static int (int X, int Y) {
int size = X;
int hours = 0;
while (size<=Y) {
size * 2;
}
}

Feb 7 '20 #1

dev7060

..to receive an integer N..

The function has to accept only one formal argument.

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1. public static int (int X, int Y) {

No function name is mentioned.

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1. while (size<=Y) 

It should not check for equality here. Refer the question:

...level reaches N or more organisms...

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1. size * 2;

This surely is doing size*2 but isn't updating any value.

See the required changes below:

Feb 7 '20 #2