a lady grew 200 mangoes in her Garden she decided to distribute 66 mangoes among her neighbours write an algorithm to display the total number of mangoes she kept for herself and her family
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Answer:
Being hungry, he took 1/6 of the mangoes.
Later that same night, the Queen was hungry and couldn’t sleep.
She, too, found the mangoes and took 1/5 of what the King had left.
Still later, the first Prince awoke, went to the kitchen, and ate 1/4 of the remaining mangoes.
Even later, his brother, the second Prince, ate 1/3 of what was then left.
Finally, the third Prince ate 1/2 of what was left, leaving only three mangoes for the servants.
How many mangoes were originally in the bowl?
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