Anu owns an egg store in the town where she sells half of the stock every day. If 1/10th of the stock gets spoiled during the night and a total of 1983 eggs got spoiled in exactly three days, how many eggs did Anu have?
Question
Anu owns an egg store in the town where she sells half of the stock every day. If 1/10th of the stock gets spoiled during the night and a total of 1983 eggs got spoiled in exactly three days, how many eggs did Anu have?
Solution
Let's solve this step by step:
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According to the problem, 1/10th of the stock gets spoiled every night. This means that the number of spoiled eggs each night is equal to 1/10th of the total number of eggs Anu has.
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We know that a total of 1983 eggs got spoiled in exactly three days. So, the number of eggs that got spoiled each day is 1983/3 = 661 eggs.
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Now, we know that 661 eggs is equal to 1/10th of the total number of eggs. So, to find the total number of eggs, we can multiply 661 by 10.
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Therefore, Anu had 661 * 10 = 6610 eggs.
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