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The Case of the Missing Mangos

Submitted by Tina from Baltimore, 12/8/2000. Original answer and this article by Allen Stenger.

A king was hungry one night and went downstairs to get some food ... He saw mangos in a dish and took 1/6 of them ... Then his wife went downstairs and got 1/5 of the remaining mangos ... Then his son came down and took 1/4 of the remaining mangos ... Then his oldest son went down and took 1/3 of the remaining mangos ... Last his youngest son came down and took 1/2 of the mangos left ... There are 3 mangos left ... How many mangos were in the dish at the beginning?

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