A website Maths Puzzle

Fish Bowl
A fish bowl contains many marbles.
Jacquie estimates the bowl contains sixty one marbles.
Wendell thinks there are fifty nine marbles in the bowl.
Joanne guesses the bowl holds sixty marbles.
Samantha guesses fifty eight marbles and Boris says the bowl contains sixty two marbles.
Two persons were incorrect by two marbles and two other people missed the total by one marble.

Question : How many marbles are in the fish bowl?

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A website Other Question
Five persons are standing on one side of a bridge.
They want to cross the bridge.

Without a torch, they cannot proceed.
Only one torch is available.
The torch has a remaining battery life of only 30 seconds.

Only two people can go over the bridge at one time.
The torch needs to be returned to the remaining persons.

The five people take different times to cross the bridge.
One takes 1 second to cross the bridge.
The others take 3 seconds, 6 seconds, 8 seconds and 12 seconds.

Everyone crosses the bridge within 30 seconds.

Question : How do they proceed?

 Q. One day I went to the market to buy apples. A vendor had a basket full of apples. When asked for the number of apples in the basket, the vendor replied that

if arranged in 2s the remainder = 1
if arranged in 3s the remainder = 2
if arranged in 4s the remainder = 3
if arranged in 5s the remainder = 4
if arranged in 6s the remainder = 5
if arranged in 7s the remainder = 0

How many apples were there in the basket?