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John needs to purchase 100 chocolates from three different shops and he has exactly 100 rupees to do that which he must spend entirely. He must buy at least 1 Chocolate from each shop.
The first shop is selling each chocolate at 5 paise, the second is selling at 1 rupee and the third is selling at 5 rupees.
How many chocolates should he buy from each shop?
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10 people came into a hotel with 9 rooms and each guest wanted his own room. The bellboy solved this problem.
He asked the tenth guest to wait for a little with the first guest in room number 1. So in the first room, there were two people. The bellboy took the third guest to room number 2, the fourth to number 3, …, and the ninth guest to room number 8. Then he returned to room number 1 and took the tenth guest to room number 9, still vacant.
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There is a number which when you multiply by 3 and subtract 2 from the result, then the resulting number is the reverse of the actual number.
What is the smallest number that stands true on the statement?
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In a classic wine shop, the list of three most popular wines are:
– The cost of 1 French wine bottle: 500$
– The cost of 1 German wine bottle: 100$
– The cost of 20 Dutch wine bottles: 100$John entered the wine shop and he needs to buy
– All three types of wine bottles.
– Needs to buy Dutch wine bottles in multiples of 20.
– Need to buy 100 wine bottles in total.John has only 10000$. How many wine bottles of each type, John must buy?
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