SOLUTION: There are six eggs in a basket. Six people take one of the eggs each. How is it that one egg can still be left in the basket?
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Question 874232: There are six eggs in a basket. Six people take one of the eggs each. How is it that one egg can still be left in the basket?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This sounds like a riddle more than a math problem, but the last person can just leave the last egg in the basket (and still have possession of the egg).
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