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.
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Sold. Remaining
X/2 +1/2. x/2-1/2
X/4-1/4+1/2 x/4-1/4-1/2=x/4-3/4
Proceed like this up to 7 the term and equate last term equal to zero
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