Medals

Written on 12:26 am by Vja Students

In a sports contest there were m medals awarded on n successive days (n > 1).

1. On the first day 1 medal and 1/7 of the remaining m-1 medals were awarded.
2. On the second day 2 medals and 1/7 of the now remaining medals was awarded; and so on.
3. On the nth and last day, the remaining n medals were awarded.

How many days did the contest last, and how many medals were awarded altogether?


Answere::Yes,answere is right 6 days & 36 medals

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2 Comments

  1. Unknown | 20 October 2007 at 12:48 am

    6 days & 36 medals

     
  2. Unknown | 21 October 2007 at 3:33 am

    Any working solution as to how to get to the answer?... apart from working backwards once you know what the answer is ?!

     

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