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 the flowers be x

Offering off flowers in 1st temple =1/2x

Left flowers =3

Flowers left = 1/2x+3=x

3=x/2

x=3*2

x=6

So the flowers she had started with is 6