Question

UrGENT...Radha takes some flowers in a basket and visits three temples one by one.at each temple she offers one half of the flowers she had in her basket.if she is left with three flowers at the end .find the number of flowers she had in the beginning.

Answer 1

at third temple she visited she had offered 3 flowers and at second temple 6 and at first temple she had 12 flowers

Answer 2

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Let the total number of flowers she had in the beginning.

According to the question,

$x - \frac{x}{2} - \frac{x/2}{2} - \frac{x / 4}{2} = 3 \\ \\ x - \frac{x}{2} - \frac{x}{4} - \frac{x}{8} = 3 \\ \\ \frac{8x - 4x - 2x - x}{8} = 3 \\ \\ \frac{x}{8} = 3 \\ \\ x = 3 \times 8 \\ \\ x = 24$

Hence, the total number is flowers she had in the beginning is 24.

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$\huge\dag\sf\blue{By \: Divyanshu}$