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#1 2008-07-01 01:48:33
- tony123
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A king
A king was hungry one night and went downstairs to get some food ... He saw mangos in a dish and took 1/6 of them ... Then his wife went downstairs and got 1/5 of the remaining mangos ... Then his son came down and took 1/4 of the remaining mangos ... Then his oldest son went down and took 1/3 of the remaining mangos ... Last his youngest son came down and took 1/2 of the mangos left ... There are 3 mangos left ... How many mangos were in the dish at the beginning?
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#2 2008-07-01 02:45:01
- JaneFairfax
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Re: A king
Each person took
mangos, where N was the total number of mangos on the dish. In this case, N = 18.Offline
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