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To calculate: After the number of minutes was the container half full.
Answer to Problem 32HP
After 7 minutes the container is half full.
Explanation of Solution
Given information: The amount of water in a container doubles every minute. After 8 minutes the container is full.
Here, it is given it doubles for each and every minute.
After 8 minutes it is full.
So, before 1 minute the container is half full.
After 7 minutes=
After 6 minutes =
After 5 minutes =
That’s after 7 minutes if it was half full, in 8th minute it becomes doubled as full. If we see after 6 minutes it was quarter full. It goes and so on like this.
Chapter 7 Solutions
Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018
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