Are you a contended person?

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A farmer wants to pick some lemon fruits from a lemon tree, which is at the backyard of a palace. He enters into it and can see lot of securities standing both sides in a row. He approached the first security from one side of a row for getting permission to pick lemon from that tree, for which the security accepted , but with a condition. The condition is, "He should give half of the lemon fruits to every security standing there and in-turn each one of them gives him (farmer), one lemon fruit from that half". How many lemon fruits did the farmer picked and how many fruits he took to his home?


The answer is 2.

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2 solutions

Michael Mendrin
Aug 6, 2014

You need to eliminate the 2nd question, which is "and how many fruits he took to his home?", because the answer to that one is "1". Your problems should have a single, unique answer.

This is a really curious problem, I liked this one, but please fix this problem, and just ask, "How many lemon fruits did the farmer pick from the lemon tree?"

hmm k u r right thanks for ur reply

Aravindh Ajidhan - 6 years, 10 months ago
Aravindh Ajidhan
Aug 5, 2014

He will pick only 2 lemons, so he gives 1 lemon (half of the picked lemon fruits) to every security and in-turn each one gives him 1 back, so it continues for all the securities, irrespective of their strength. So the answer is he picks 2 lemon fruits and take 2 lemon fruits to home. (This is to check whether you have a contended mind or not)

any other solutions or different answers, please let me know.\

Aravindh Ajidhan - 6 years, 10 months ago

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Yeah, you need to tighten up the language further. For example, you can say that there are more than 4 security guards on each side of the row but fewer than 1000 lemons on the tree. Then the only possible answer would be 2. For example, if there were 8 security guards, then this sequence could be possible 770, 386, 194, 98, 50, 26, 14, 8, 5, so that the farmer takes home 5 lemons, after having picked 770.

For drama, you can simply say, "a lot of securities as far as the eye can see", or "dozens of securities", which would make it a practical impossibility for any one lemon tree to offer that many lemon fruits.

Michael Mendrin - 6 years, 10 months ago

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