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A water tank doubles in volume every hour. If the tank is full at 11:00 AM, at what time was it a quarter full?

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B

Step-by-step solution

3 steps
  1. Understand the doubling rate.

    The amount of water in the tank doubles every hour.

  2. Work backward from the full state.

    At 11:00h, the tank was full. Let the full volume be VV.
    One hour before 11:00h, at 10:00h, the tank must have been half full, because it doubled to become full by 11:00h.
    So, at 10:00h, the volume was V2\frac{V}{2}.

  3. Continue working backward to find when it was a quarter full.

    One hour before 10:00h, at 09:00h, the tank must have been a quarter full, because it doubled to become half full by 10:00h.
    So, at 09:00h, the volume was V4\frac{V}{4}.

    The tank was a quarter full at 09:00h.

    Comparing this with the given options:
    A 08:00h
    B 09:00h
    C 09:30h
    D 10:00h
    E 10:15h

    The correct option is B.

    The final answer is 09:00h\boxed{\text{09:00h}}.

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