Efficiency of a heat engine whose sink is at a temperature of $300 ~K$ is $40 \%$. To increase the efficiency to $60 \%$,keeping the sink temperature constant,the source temperature must be increased by (in $~K$)

  • A
    $750$
  • B
    $500$
  • C
    $250$
  • D
    $1000$

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