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Pastimes : INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA
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To: Nazbuster who wrote (6)9/10/1999 8:42:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo  Read Replies (5) of 96
 
I'm working on it. Here is one for you:

A farmer is unhappy that the kids are stealing his apples, so he makes seven concentric fences around his orchard. Each fence has a gate.

The farmer has seven sons, and one son is stationed at each gate. The farmer tells the kids outside, "You can go in, and you can take as many apples as you can carry in your arms. But when you leave, you have to give half of what you have to each of my sons on your way out. Each son, in turn, will take half of your apples, and then give you one apple back.

"Any boy that can tell me how many apples he will pick and take to my first son on his way out will get to go in."

What's the only smart answer?
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