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ANY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS,STUDENTS or PROFESSORS PLEASE........... TRY TO ANSWER THIS LOGICAL QUESTION----
Ten thieves steal x Gold coins and escaped. While all are sleeping two thieves woke up divided the coins between them and found one coin extra.Just then third thief woke up. These three divided all the coins among themselves so found three coins extra.
......................... This continued till the tenth thief wakes up and on dividing the coins among them they found 9 coins extra
HOW MANY GOLD COINS WERE THERE IN ALL?
Ten thieves steal x Gold coins and escaped. While all are sleeping two thieves woke up divided the coins between them and found one coin extra.Just then third thief woke up. These three divided all the coins among themselves so found three coins extra.
......................... This continued till the tenth thief wakes up and on dividing the coins among them they found 9 coins extra
HOW MANY GOLD COINS WERE THERE IN ALL?
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There is an unknown number of gold coins left. If you were to do the calculations by algebra, you would realize that none of the end numbers of gold coins are the same.
Answer Date: 08:11am 05/24/08
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We have to take l.c.m. for 1 to 10 the answer is 2519 gold coins.
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Answer Date: 08:28am 05/24/08
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first of all, what happened when they divided among them( all 10 thieves). I assume they divided into equal parts with no leftovers.
Second of all, when it was nine of them , you are saying that they left with nine coins, which is also means 0( split those nine coins among them).