Question

Radha 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 number of flowers she had in the beginning.

Answer 1

Let total be x
At 1st temple she gives1/2x
At second temple she give 1/2ofx- 1/2x=x/4
At third temple she gives1/2ofx-(x/4+x/2)=x/8
ATP
x-(1/2x+x/4+x/8)=3
x-7/8x=3
7x/8=3
x=3*8
x=24
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