A wooden block floats in a liquid with $40\%$ of its volume inside the liquid. When the vessel containing he liquid starts rising upwards with acceleration $a = g/2$, the percentage of volume inside the liquid is ......... $\%$
  • A$20$
  • B$60$
  • C$30$
  • D$40$
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