Question

An old woman goes to the market with a basket of eggs. She sets the basket down and a horse accidentally steps on it, crushing all the eggs. The rider offers to pay her for the damaged eggs and asks how many eggs she had. She tells the rider that she cannot remember but that when she had taken all of the eggs out 3 at a time, there were 2 left in the basket. When she took them out 5 at a time, there were 3 left and when she took them out 7 at a time, there were 2 left. Find out how many eggs were there initially using chinese remainder theorem

Answer 1

Hey friend
the answer is 23... there were 23 eggs initially