Here is this week's cool brain benders!
10 September 2007
Briggs is a detective. Someone stole some figs from a grocery store. The shop keeper could not remember the number of figs in each box. He could only remember the following clues:
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The total number of figs in box C is 1/3 of half the total of those in box E.
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Box B has twice as many figs as box C and E combined.
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Box A has half as many figs as Box E.
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Box A has 10 less then box D
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D has 1/4 as many as B
How many are in Each box?
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