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How do you distribute the lemons?

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You have 1023 lemons and 10 bags. You have to distribute these lemons in these 10 bags in any way you choose. But when I ask for a certain number of lemons you have to give them in terms of bags without transferring the lemons from other bags.
How do you distribute the lemons?

posted Nov 17, 2014 by Nimish

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2 to the power of 1 = 2 in first bag, 2 to the power of 2 = 4 in second bag like that till 2 to the power of 10 in the 10th bag the total will be 1023. Then you do whatever you wanna do!!!

answer Nov 17, 2014 by anonymous
its wrong because 2 to the power 10 is 1024 not 1023



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