Comments on: A Problem of Gooseberries

By: santhu

santhu — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:09:21 +0000

mohith was right.. me too done in the same way

By: anish

anish — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:58:38 +0000

Since 8 berries are left which is the share of other two sisters according to Vasantha, it means total berries when she arrived were 12 because she ate her 4 berries and left 8 in the bowl.

Similarly lalitha left 12 berries in the bowl, it means 12 berries are the share of other two sisters according to lalitha, total berriew when she arrived has to be 18.

Same is the case with first one and you can now tell that intially there were 27 berries in the bowl.

By: akrati

akrati — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:46:09 +0000

can u plz tell me , how did u solved that

By: mohit

mohit — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:16:09 +0000

initially there were 27 berries.
The 3 sisters ate 9, 6 & 4 berries respectively.
But actual division should be 9, 9, 9.
So, their mother gave 3 berries to lalita and 5 beries to vasantha.