The efficiency of carnot engine is $50\%$ and temperature of sink is $500\,K$ . If temperature of source is kept constant and its efficiency raised to $60\%$ , then the required temperature of the sink will be  .... $K$
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$\mathrm{T}_{\sin \mathrm{k}}=500$

$\eta=50 \%$

$\mathrm{T}_{\text {source }}=1000 \mathrm{k}$

Now $\eta_{2}=60 \%$

$\frac{60}{100}=\frac{1000-\mathrm{T}_{2}}{1000}$

$\mathrm{T}_{2}=400 \mathrm{k}$

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