High School Math Page Archive: 2009
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| Flowers! Flowers!
There are 3 rivers and after each river lies a grave. So there are 3 rivers and 3 graves. A man wants to leave the SAME amount of flowers at each grave, and be left with none at the end. What happens though is that each time he passes through one of the rivers the number of flowers he has doubles. So he has to start off with what number of flowers, taking into consideration that they double, so that he is left with no flowers whatsoever at the end?
(5 points for a solution, with explanation;
6 points for all solutions, with explanation)
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Jan 5, 2009 |
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