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 re: Solution by Charlie)

I think this is most likely the intended solution, though it does not fit under the current conditions.

It can be proven there are no solutions: If A has 6 more than box B, then no matter which is chosen in step 2, each box will have a different number of apples.

However if A has double the number of apples that B has, then either C>A>B, or A>B>C, which both imply each box has a different number of apples.

Posted by Gamer on 2007-03-15 11:28:56