Three sailors land on an island where they find a pile of coconuts and a monkey. They agree to sleep overnight and divide up the pile in the morning. During the night, one sailor wakes up, gives one coconut to the monkey, takes exactly 1/3 of the rest, and falls back asleep. Then the second sailor wakes up and does the same. Later the third sailor wakes up and does the same. In the morning, there are fewer than 10 coconuts left. They each take 1/3. How many coconuts were there in the original pile?
2007-10-29
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