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A wet porous substance in the open air loses its moisture at a rate proportional to the moisture content. If a sheet hung in the wind loses half its moisture during the first hour, when will it have last `95%` moisture, weather conditions remaining the same?

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(i) `t=(log 10)/(log 2)` hours (ii) `(log 100)/(log 2)` hours.
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