a certain no of bullets were shared by 3 ppl equally.each of
them fired 4 of the bullets and the sum of the remaining
bullets are equal to the initial share each had got.what was
the initial number of bullets?
Answer Posted / beatrice
initially they had 18 bullets which was equally partitioned
among 3 of them the share was given to each of the three
and each of thenm used 4 bullets from their share so the
remainin is 2 in each share and the sum wud bring 6(2+2+2)
and this was the individual share given to each so again
the sum brings 18(6+6+6).so 18 is the answer
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