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Three friends Mohit,Manohar and Prashant decided to share a lot of bananas. Each of them had half of the total plus half a banana in order. After each of them took their share twice, no bananas were left.
1.How many bananas were there?
2.How many bananas did Mohit get?
3.How many bananas did Manohar get?

Asked In TCS saurabh singh (12 years ago)

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Akhand Pratap Singh  (12 years ago)

Total bananas=63
Mohit have=36(32+4) Bananas
Manohar have=18(16+2) bananas

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Akhand Pratap Singh  (12 years ago)

@Radhika & Saurabh-Dear,
ther r 2 methods to solve dis type of qus.:
1)go through options,which is a good choice
2)(2^n)-1 is the formula

here n is roatation
according to question its twice means 2*3=6

(2^6)-1=63
now 4 mohit=(64/2)+4=36
4 manohar=(64/4)+4/2=18

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taruna  (12 years ago)

mohit,manohar and prashant will have bananas in order x/2,x/4,x/8,x/16,x/32,x/64,
also they will have 3 additional bananas. all these equals to x bananas . so ans is 192................ :)

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Radhika Rathi  (12 years ago)

@Akhand: can u plzz explain it..

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sreeram  (12 years ago)

(2^n)-1 is the formula

here n is roatation
according to question its twice means 2*3=6

(2^6)-1=63

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hao  (12 years ago)

plzz give d options ...

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saurabh singh  (12 years ago)

@Akhand..please explain your solution

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saurabh singh  (12 years ago)

@akhand...how u have found out the total no of bananas for mohit and manohar..?By the way ur ans is correct..:)please explain me the process for mohit and manohar

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