Aravamudhan gives Babu as many rupees as Babu has and Chiranjeevi as many rupees as Chiranjeevi has. Similarly, Babu then gives Aravamudhan and Chiranjeevi as many rupees as each of them has. Chiranjeevi, similarly gives Aravamudhan and Babu as many rupees as each of them has. Now finally each of them has Rs.32, with how many rupees does Aravamudhan start?

a)52 b)56 c)60 d)62

• We have to take a bottom up (reverse) approach to tackle these kinds of problems. Below are the steps to solve this problem.
  
  Aravamudhan Babu Chiranjeevi
  Finally 32 32 32
  Before Chiranjeevi gives 16 16 64
  Before Babu gives 8 56 32
  Before Aravamudhan gives 52 28 16
  Hence, Aravamudhan start with Rs 52.
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