How many did he start with?

Question

A boy is walking into town and comes to an orange fruit orchard. He fills a sack with oranges and continues on his journey. He encounters a farmer and says, "give me half of your oranges and half of an orange and i wont tell anyone that you stole those oranges." He does and keeps going. He meets someone else that says, "give me half of those oranges and a half of an orange and i wont care that you stole my oranges" He does and keeps walking. Another man comes up and says "give me half of your oranges and half of an orange and ill let you live. He does, but now he is out of oranges, how many did he steal to begin with? Please star if you can't get it.

Without cutting any oranges, and he did give the oranges to the last guy but had none left over for himself.

Answer 1

7

Answer 2

7

Answer 3

7

Answer 4

he bagged oranges (how nice of him) he observed and confronted a farmer, who had stolen oranges. Was it the ones he bagged?(unknown)

for his blackmail he acquired 3 of 5 stolen oranges.

some how known to the owner he confronts the boy and demanded two of the tree oranges leaving the boy one for his troubles.

Then the other man came and took his last orange. (a half at a time).

now he had none

(unknown) did the farmer steal his bag of five oranges? were there five oranges in that bag?

ETHER THAT OR NONE HE WAS WALKING AND THEN GOT THE ORANGES

Answer 5

He started without any oranges. He is walking into town and comes to an orange grove.

Changed from my answer that he stole a sack full.

Answer 6

How could he have given the oranges to the last guy, cause the first guy got half, and then half of 1, then the second one got the other half, and the half of the other orange, , and you said that he did give the oranges to killer guy...but he didn't have any left so how could he???

Answer 7

hey i have really tried but my brain's gone rusty, what is this called again?..........algebra!

if he stole 10 oranges gives half =5oranges
5-1/2 =41/2

41/2 gives away 1/2 =2
2-1/2=11/2
11/2 gives away half = 1
1-1/2=0.5oranges
having come this far, i think he stole 10, let me know how i fared!

Answer 8

previously he fill a sack of oranges,but now he got nothing, he never steal the oranges,he just fill a sack with oranges. answer :He never steal oranges. so it shuld be 0.

Answer 9

11?

Answer 10

you makes my brain go sideways....

Not enough information is given, all you know is this:

Sack= x
farmer= a
random guy 1= b
random guy 2= c


a= X x .5
b= a x .5+ .5
c= b x .5 + .5

x= a+b+c


OK! my brain stopped xp