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Jun 27 2006
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A rich man died. In his will, he has divided his gold coins among his 5 sons, 5 daughters and a manager. According to his will: First give one coin to manager. 1/5th of the remaining to the elder son. Now give one coin to the manager and 1/5th of the remaining to second son and so on..... After giving coins to 5th son, divided the remaining coins among five daughters equally.All should get full coins. Find the minimum number of coins he has?

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Tej

Jan 6th, 2018

The minimum can be 21

Narutanks

Mar 16th, 2016

Since the manager gets only 5 coins, and all should get same no of coins.
Therefore, total no of coins is 5 * (5 sons + 5 daughters + 1 manager). i.e. 5*11 = 55.
Total coins is 55

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