There are 3 ponds and rose plant in the garden of a
magician. The ponds are magical and when we put flower in
it, it will double them.
The magician to test his assistant sets this task. The
assistant has to pluck some flowers from the rose plant and
put them all in the first pond, then when they double he
has to take a few flowers from the first pond and put them
all in the second pond, and they are doubled in the second
pond has to take a few from the second pond and put them in
the third which will be doubled.
The task is at the end of the activity all the ponds must
have the same no of flowers. He cannot carry any flowers
with him and neither can he put fresh flowers in to second
or third pond.
how many flowers should he pluck from the plant and how
many are transfered from first to second and second to
third pond?
- 2 Answers
- 5768 Views
- I also Faced
- E-Mail Answers
Answer Posted / anonymous
Take 3roses from Plant and put it in Pond1.
On day2 pond1 has 6 roses. Take 4 roses and put in Pond2.
On day3 Pond1 has 4 roses, Pond2 has 8 roses. Now take
4roses from pond2 and put it in pond3.
Now each pond has 4 roses.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 7 Yes | 12 No |
Post New Answer View All Answers
At six o'clock the wall clock struck 6 times . Checking with my watch , I noticed that the time between the first & last strokes was 30 seconds . How long will the clock take to stike 12 at mid night
Three taps A, B and C can fill a tank in 12, 15 and 20 hours respectively. If A is open all the time and B and C are open for one hour each alternately. Then the tank will be full in:
The cost of 16 articles is equal to sell price of 12 articles. The gain percent is ?
the ticket sales s for a company increases 25% from standard sales to 60 tickets sold, then 60 - s =:
There are two natural numbers. A cube difference of the squares is a square difference of their cubes.These are the smallest possible numbers. what is the sum of these numbers?
if 8x+4y=6 and 4x+5y=7, x+y equlals
A cycled from P to Q at 10 kmph and returned at the rate of 9 kmph. B cycled both ways at 12 kmph. In the whole journey B took 10 minutes less than A. Find the distance between P and Q.
rrb second stage written exam in aptitude test model papers
the bucket size is 10KB.it takes 0.0001 KB/milisec to fill bucket.the bucket takes 100 or 1000 milisec to reach to destination.it takes 100 milisec to pass acknowledgement from dest to source.so calculate how much time will it take to pass N KB ,write formula. i don't remember the exact figures of bucket transmission time from source to dest
A car travels 12 kms with a 4/5th filled tank.How far will the car travel with 1/3 filled tank?
If "PROMPT" is coded as QSPLOS ,then "PLAYER" should be?
A car is traveling at a uniform speed. The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number. After traveling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same digits in reverse order. After another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the same two digits. What is the average speed of the driver.
one answer is 200/3 % it is perfectly correct wecannot recollec the prob. so place it blindly.
Which of the following fractions is less than 1/3
the program requires 4000(n)1/2 [ie square root of n].if size of program was increased by 1% then calculate the percentage change in size of program.
