You've got three boxes with apples. You know that:

1. In box A there are 6 apples less, or double the number of apples, than in box B.

2. in box C there are 5 apples more than in box A, or 5 less apples than in box B.

3. There are at least two boxes with the same number of apples in them.

How many apples are in each box?

(In reply to solution by Charlie)

... except, I guess, if there are zero apples in box A and also in box B, and 5 in box C.

But then do you really have "three boxes with apples"?

Edited on March 15, 2007, 8:32 am

Posted by Charlie on 2007-03-15 08:31:08