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Radha takes some flowers in a basket and visits three temples one by one. At each temple, she offers one half of the flowers from the basket. If she is left with 3 flowers at the end, find the number of flowers she had in the beginng

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Answer:

Radha had 24 flowers.

Step-by-step explanation:

LET the Radha's total flowers be = y

  • Temple 1 -

Flowers OFFERED in first Temple -

She offered HALF of the total flowers. So,

⇒ 1/2 × y

⇒ y/2

Flowers remaining after first Temple - y/2

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  • Temple 2 -

Half of y/2 =

⇒ y/2 × 1/2

⇒ y/4

Flowers remaining after Temple 2 - y/4

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  • Temple 3 -

Half of y/4 =

⇒ y/4 × 1/2

⇒ y/8

Flowers remaining = y/8

At the end she is left with 3 flowers, so,

⇒ y/8 = 3

⇒ y = 8 × 3

⇒ y = 24

Total flowers = 24

THEREFORE, Radha had 24 flowers.



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