Mark monitors the growth of a colony of bacteria in his biology lab. He begins with a colony of 100 bacteria. After 24 hours, the colony has grown to 305 bacteria. After 24 more hours, the colony consists of 897 bacteria. What is a reasonable estimate of how many bacteria he can expect to count in the colony
when he returns 24 hours later?

the mistake in the pattern is that :

b. the decimal point was moved one too many place values each time

the correct pattern could be made by :

b. moving the decimal point to the right the same numbers of place values as the exponents

step-by-step explanation:

descending order means to order the polynomials from the term with the largest exponent to the term with the smallest exponent.  

therefore, the correct answer is d.  

the second option

step-by-step explanation: