A secret can be told only 2 persons in 5 minutes .the
same person tells to 2 more persons and so on . How long
will take to tell it to 768 persons ?

Answer Posted / jayanthi

1->2->4->8....by 10 minutes it will reach 1024 persons. so
it will take 10 minutes to 768 persons

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