11th Class
Mathematics
Sample Paper
Mathematics Olympiad - Sample Paper-11
question_answer
A king on his birthday decide to offer 100 coins of gold among his 4 sons and 3 wives. The denomination of each coin is Rs.1. He put all the 100 coins in 7 bags in such a way that by taking a proper combination of various bags any integral sum (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, ?... , 100) can be obtained and it is known that the only whole sum of any bag can be taken. If the king wanted to distribute the amount equally among them, then how many people would have received more amount (number of coins) than that of previously retaining two coins with himself.