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Radha takes some flowers in a basket and visits three temples one by one. At each temple, she offers one half of the flowers from the basket. If she is left with 3 flowers at the end, find the number of flowers she had in the beginning.

Answer:

Let she had x flowers,

I temple visit

No of flowers \[=x-\frac{x}{2}\]

\[=\frac{x}{2}\]

II temple visit

No. of flowers \[=\frac{x}{4}-\frac{1}{2}\left( \frac{x}{4} \right)\]

\[=\frac{x}{4}-\frac{x}{8}\]

\[=\frac{2x-x}{8}\]

\[=\frac{x}{8}\]

According to condition,

\[\frac{x}{8}=3\]

\[\therefore \]                \[x=24\]