Question

.Neetu takes some flowers in a basket and visits three temples one by one. At each temple she

offers one half of the flowers from the basket. If she is left with 3 flowers at the end. Find the

numbers of flowers she had in the beginning.​

Answer 1

Answer:

We have,

Let the total number of flower=x

At reach Ist temple=x−

2

x

=

2

x

At reach second temple

=

2

x

−

2

x

×

2

1

=

2

x

−

4

x

=

4

x

At reach third temple

=

4

x

−

4

x

×

2

1

=

4

x

−

8

x

=

8

x

According to given question,

8

x

=3

⇒x=24

Hence, this is the answer.