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From The Book of Squares (Posted on 2017-07-26) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, recounts that he was given this problem by John of Palermo as part of a mathematical tournament.

Three men possess a pile of money, their shares being 1/2, 1/3, 1/6. Each man takes some money from the pile until nothing is left. The first man returns 1/2 of what he took, the second 1/3 and third 1/6. When the total so returned is divided equally among the men it is found that each then possesses what he is entitled to. How much money was in the original pile, and how much did each man take from the pile?

Note: This is a Diophantine problem so you may just give the smallest whole number solution.

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I before E except after C - exceptions | Comment 4 of 8 |
That's the rule, Adi.

But English being English, there are exceptions to the rule: seize, weird, foreign, neighbor (or neighbour), weigh, sufficient, science, . . .

:-)    :-)   :-)

  Posted by JayDeeKay on 2017-08-01 09:52:23
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