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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