There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after the
other such that the first one takes 1/2 of the total no.
of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd,4th
and 5th also did the same. After the fifth one no. of
breads remained are 3. Initially how many breads were there?
Answer Posted / shailesh
guyz its better to go bottom to top in this prob
After 5th man 3 bread remained implies twice no. of (breads
minus half) available b4 him
there are (3-0.5) x 2 = 5 breads available before him
for 4th man
(5-0.5)x2=9
for 3rd man
(9-0.5)x2=17
for 2nd man
(17-0.5)x2=33
for 1st man
(33-0.5)x2=65
dats total 65 breads available
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 8 No |
Post New Answer View All Answers
What kind of questions are there in Harbinger Aptitutde test paper(for 2011)and their paper pattern?Plz reply urgently.
A person has Rs 100/- in his pocket, he can as 25 pencils or 15books. He kept 15% of the money for travelling expenses and purchased 5 ncils.So how many books he can purchase with the remaining money.
there are 76 persons. 53 can read hindu,46 can read times,39 can read deccan and 15 can read all.if 22 can read hindu and deccan and 23 can read deccan and times then what is the number of persons who read only times and hindu………
Three friends divided some bullets equally. After all of them shot 4 bullets the total no.of remaining bullets is equal to that of one has after division. Find the original number divided.
Sky Heaven is a 16 stored building with 12000 sq. feet on each floor. Zintac International rents 7 floors and Zobia International rents 4 floors. What is the number of sq. feet of unrented floor space?
The mean and the variance of a binomial distribution are 4 and 2 respectively. Then the probability of 2 successes is?
If 4 circles of equal radius are drawn with vertices of a square as the center, the side of the square being 7 cm, find the area of the circles outside the square?
A clock showing 6 o'clock takes 30 secs to strike 6 times.How long will it take to strike 12 at midnight?
Current/most recent employer (Please state full names and address including Country and post code) Current Position Held When would you be available to start work? ONLINE INTERVIEW [INSTRUCTIONS: Give brief answers to all the under listed questions] QUESTIONS ANSWER SPACE 1) What are your years of experience? 2) How do you approach a technical problem? Give an example. How long do you think it would be before you will make a significant contribution to the team/company?
i want epf model paper.please send me
A sum of money becomes 2.5 times itself at 12.5% simple interest p.a. What should be the period of investment to get this much return?
Find the result of the following _expression if, M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation: M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8)
The Parallelogram PQRS, the line RS have midpoint T from line PQ. What is the ratio of Triangle PTS / parallelogram PQRS?
A farmer built a fence around his 17 cows, in a square shaped region. He used 27 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether?
Ganesh and Shankar travel abroad and take more luggage than the airlines allow. They have to pay extra money for it. They carry 52 kgs together and pay $60 and $100 respectively. Now, if the same luggage was carried by only Ganesh it would cost him $340. If the airlines charges only at one rate for extra luggage what is the maximum luggage that a person can carry without paying extra?