Read this logical reasoning riddle carefully and then answer the question.
A Glass dish hosts a healthy colony of bacteria.
Once a minute every bacterium divides into two.
The colony was founded by a single cell at noon.
At exactly 12:43 (43 minutes later) the Petri dish was half full.
At what time will the dish be full?
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Answer:
The bacteria double in 1 minute. So the dish will be full in the next minute.
So answer is 44 minutes i.e. 12:44
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