Thread: modified newspaper puzzle...

A man have set of newspapers...

He supply the newspapers to three shops....

But what is the pblm once he entered the shop, the amount of news paper will doubled and returned the shop, the amount of newspaper also doubled....

The condition is...

He supplied equal number of newspapers to all the three shops...
When he returned from the last shop he has no newspapers....

So howmany he have and howmany he supplied ?

Suresh I have a small query in the wording of the problem.Does the number of newspaper he had got doubled when he enter the shop and also while leaving the shop.Confirm me on this so that can try to solve this interesting problem.

The man started with 21 newspapers and supply 32 in each shops.

@ the First shop
He entered with 21 nps
they were doubled to 42
he supplied 32. 10 nps were remaining.
while coming out they were doubled to 20.

@ the Second shop
He entered with 20 nps
they were doubled to 40
he supplied 32. 8 nps were remaining.
while coming out they were doubled to 16.

@ the Third shop
He entered with 16 nps
they were doubled to 32
he supplied all the 32.

That is exactly what i want.....