SOLUTION: Four children find a bag of marbles and divide them among themselves. Each child takes a different number of marbles and no child has more than twice as many marbles as anyone else
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Question 315706: Four children find a bag of marbles and divide them among themselves. Each child takes a different number of marbles and no child has more than twice as many marbles as anyone else. The smallest possible number of marbles in the bag was
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 18 (D) 21 (E) None of these
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
3+4+5=10 ans. A)
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