- A sweater is revolving in a slow low power dryer and losing moisture at any moment at the constant rate 100% of its current moisture content in 100 minutes.
- Veronica knew the sweater was x times its dry weight when she put her wet sweater from the washer to the dryer.
- How many minutes she should wait so that the sweater weighs w times its dry weight?
- Please try a general solution, the test suite may expand later.
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Jean-Marie Sainthillier
on 21 Aug 2012
I understand the problem but not the tests
Jean-Marie Sainthillier
on 29 Aug 2012
-1 :)
Jihye Sofia Seo
on 13 Feb 2017
It seems like the water content halves every ~69 minutes. But the first sentence about 100% and 100 minutes are very confusing. If it is exponential decay, then water should never reach 0.
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