A seller has a set of apples out of which he sells one
half of it and half an apple to his first customer.then he
sells half of the remaining apples and a half apple to his
second customer.Then he sells half of the remaining apple
and ? apple to his third customer and so on.This repeats
upto 7th customer and no more apples are remaining . Find
the total no of apples he had.

Answer Posted / binod kumar

The answer is 20. Please check it...

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