The amount of water in a barrel doubles every minute. Barrel fills up completely in 60 minutes. In how much time will it be half fulled ?

20 minutes
30 minutes
40 minutes
59 minutes

The correct answer is (b).

The amount of water in the barrel doubles every minute. This means that the barrel is half full after 30 minutes.

Option (a) is incorrect because the barrel is not half full after 20 minutes.

Option (c) is incorrect because the barrel is not half full after 40

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Option (d) is incorrect because the barrel is not half full after 59 minutes.

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