Problem 441. Drying sweater?

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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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