The bacteria in a 4 liter container double every minute. After 60 mins, the container is full...?

...How long did it take to fill half the container?

The bacteria in a 4 liter container double every minute. After 60 mins, the container is full...?
If it doubles every minute, then 1 minute ago it would be half as full.





Answer:


59 minutes.
Reply:30 min
Reply:59 minutes
Reply:That is probably the easiest question in mathematics section.





You just said it doubles every minute, so that means that at 59 minutes it was half and doubled at 60th minute.





So it will be half full at 59 minutes!