Riddle me this?

Question

A man is walking down a road with a basket of eggs. As he is walking he meets someone who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. He walks a little further and meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. After proceeding further he meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg. At this point he has sold all of his eggs, and he never broke an egg. How many eggs did the man have to start with?

Nope not 3

Well done Hi Fi

Answer 1

7.

First person - buys 3 1/2 + 1/2 = 4
Second person - buys 1 1/2 + 1/2 = 2
Thirs person - buys 1/2 + 1/2 = 1

4 + 2 + 1 = 7 = 10 points

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

3

Answer 4

3 people bought half his eggs, plus another half an egg, and he ended up with no eggs? I hate math!!! That is not possible. Half an egg x 3 leaves another half an egg, and that last guy bought half of what was left, so there have to be more eggs or he couldn't have. And those eggs had better be hard-boiled.
Sorry, I am too stupid for this but thanks for the 2points.

Answer 5

i guess he had the chicken in his arm and every time someone wanted to buy eggs the chicken layed them.i dont know lol

Answer 6

aaawwwww shucks..... HiFi beat me to it. It took me at least 10 minutes to work out the answer! I came up with 7 too - is it right??? Ignore what I said, I just read your message.

Answer 7

10 dozen

Answer 8

45,000 half of a basket! the egg is somewhat like BALUT or PENOY.