Question

Sakshi takes some flowers in a basket and visits three temples one by one. At
temple, she offers one half of the flowers from the basket. If she is left with 6 flower
at the end, find the number of flowers she had in the beginning.
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Answer 1

Answer:

48

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the no. of flowers she had in the beginning be ' x '

Flowers left after 1st temple

=> x - (1/2)x

=> x - 0.5x

=> 0.5x

Flower left after 2nd temple

=> 0.5x - (1/2) * (0.5x)

=> 0.5x - 0.25x

=> 0.25x

Flower left after 3rd temple

=> 0.25x - (1/2) * (0.25x)

=> 0.25x - 0.125x

=> 0.125x

As per question flower left at the end = 6

=> 0.125x = 6

=> x = 6 / 0.125

=> x = 48 = flowers she had in the beginning