Puzzle (1000 coins and 10 bags)

1. Puzzle (1000 Coins and 10 Bags)
Hup university
19-02-2018

2. Problem
• A dealer has 1000
coins and 10 bags. He
has to divide the
coins over the ten
bags, so that he can
make any number of
coins simply by
handing over a few
bags. How must
divide his money into
the ten bags?

3. Divide the coins into 10 bags

4. 1
1 bag

5. 2 bags
2

6. 3 bags
3

7. 4 bags
4

8. 5 bags
5

9. 6 bags
6

10. 7 bags
7

11. 8 bags
8

12. 9 & 10 bags
10

13. 10 bags
• 500
• 250
• 125
• 62
• 31
• 16
• 8
• 4
• 3
• 1