Half Filled barrel

We have shown you a regular water barrel as below. Without using any measuring device can you check if the barrel is more than half-filled or less than half-filled?

Half Filled barrel




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When I divide it by 10, the remainder is 9.

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When I looked for a smaller number with this property I couldn't find one.

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