A new factory is growing fast and hiring a lot of new workers. Every week, the total number of workers doubles in size. If it takes 12 weeks for the factory to be at full capacity, how many weeks would it take for the factory to be at half capacity?

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Ayana Henson

11 March, 19:46

A new factory is growing fast and hiring a lot of new workers. Every week, the total number of workers doubles in size. If it takes 12 weeks for the factory to be at full capacity, how many weeks would it take for the factory to be at half capacity?

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Maverick Villarreal · Answer 1

We know that the number of workers doubles every week.

This implies that the number of workers of the previous week is exactly half of the current one's.

So, it took 11 weeks for the factory to be at half capacity.