Question

Radha takes some flowers in a basket and visit three temples one by one..at each temple she offers one half of flowers from the bsasaket.if she is left with 3 flowers at the end,find the number of flowers she had in the begining.

Answer 1

Let radha has total x flowers. She offers x/2 flowers at the 1st temple. After visiting the 1st temple she has (x-x/2)=x/2 flowers.
She offers x/4 flowers at the 2nd temple. Then (x/2-x/4)=x/4 flowers left.
Lastly she offers x/8 flower at 3rd temple. Then she has (x/4-x/8)=x/8 flowers.
∴, x/8=3
or, x=24 flowers Ans.

Answer 2

Let Tasha's flowers total be x

She offers 1/2 flowers in 1st temple

=1/2*x = x/2

Then she offers 1 more half in 2nd temple

= x/2 * 1/2 = x/4

Then she offers 1more half in 3rd temple

= x/2 * x/4= x/8

X/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 =3

X/8=3

X=3*8

X=24

__Verification ____

=24/2 -24/4 -24/8=

=12-6-3=

=3