Question

a vendor had some X4 of them were broken his sold half the number of the remaining eggs and was left with 30 x at the end of the define the number of eggs he had started with what is the equation

Answer 1

31 eggs.

After selling to 3 persons , he was left with 3 eggs.
After selling to 2 persons , he was left with 3*2 +1=7 eggs.
After selling to 1 person , he was left with 7*2 +1=15 eggs.
Before selling to 1 st person , he was having 15*2 +1=31 eggs.

Answer 2

The egg vendor calls on his first customer & sells half his eggs & half an egg. To the 2nd customer he sells half of what he sells half of what he had left & half an egg. & to the 3rd customer he sells half what he had then left & half an egg. By the way he did not break any eggs. In the end three eggs were remaining . How many total eggs he was having ?