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A bowl contains a colony of bacteria. Every hour, the bacteria population doubles, but immediately after doubling, a virus kills 40% of the population. After 3 hours, the population of bacteria in the bowl is found to be 4320. What was the initial population of bacteria in the bowl?

A 2500

B 2000

C 1500

D 3000

E None of these

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