The data shows the number of bacteria in a culture after a given number of hours. Based on the data, which is closest to the number of hours it takes the culture to reach 12,000 bacteria?

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we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

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