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If the number of apples in a basket doubles every minute and it basket is full in a hour....

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If the number of apples in a basket doubles every minute and it basket is full in a hour.
When was the basket half filled?

posted Apr 21, 2016 by Andy Quirós

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Let's number of apples in Basket after one hour(60 minutes)=x
Then,
in 59 min=x/2...........................(reverse of doubles in every minute)
so Basket was half filled in 59 min
Ans 59 minutes

answer Apr 21, 2016 by Jaikumar Bhatia
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59 minutes . Basket is half filled in 59 minutes and completely fills in an hour

answer Apr 21, 2016 by Susmitha Reddy
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59 minutes is the answer. Basket is half filled at 59 minutes and completely full in an hour

answer Apr 21, 2016 by anonymous
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at 59'th minute

answer Apr 22, 2016 by Pranali Nikam
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If double in minute,It will half at 59 minutes.

answer Nov 8, 2016 by Subhash Gupta
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The basket is full in 60 minutes.
If the number of apples doubles every minute,
The basket was half fulled at the minute 59

answer Apr 24, 2016 by anonymous



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