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 / lava kumar

I think U r wrong Tina,because
according to u,
1st customer=43 apples
2nd customer=21.5 apples
An apple cannot be cut


I think the answer is 127 check it out...

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