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Thu 21 Aug, 2008 10:10 am
One hundred large boxes are placed on the table. Some of these boxes are selected and into each of them 8 smaller boxes are placed. Then some of these smaller boxes are selected and into each of them 8 smaller boxes are placed. This process is repeated a few times. At the end of this process there are 233 empty boxes altogether. How many boxes are there in total?
233 empty boxes.
Some of the boxes are not empty.
Code:Empty boxes Total boxes
100 100
107 108
114 116
121 124
128 132
135 140
142 148
149 156
156 164
163 172
170 180
177 188
184 196
191 204
198 212
205 220
212 228
219 236
226 244
233 252
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