A candle burns for exactly 60 minutes. If it burns at a constant rate, how much time is left when it has burned for 30 minutes?
Category: Brain Teasers · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about the total burn time.
Answer
30 minutes.
Explanation
If the candle burns for 30 minutes, precisely half of its time remains, which is another 30 minutes.
This is a expert brain teasers riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 30 minutes..
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