Question

bitu has a certain number of chocolate with him which is distributed among 5 friends. he gives half the total number of chocolates he had and one extra chocolate over that to his first friend, he than gave half the remaining chocolate and one extra chocolate to his second friend and so on till the fifth friend. how many chocolates did he have initially

Answer 1

Answer:

Let Raahil have 'x' number of chocolates

Chocolates given to his brother =

3

x

Chocolates given to his friend =

6

x

Chocolates left =30

Then

x−

3

x

−

6

x

=30

6

6x−2x−x

=30

⇒3x=30×6

[x=60]

∴ Raahil have 60 chocolates earlier.