document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=976413>Question 976413</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> On her birthday Anna was given a bag of sweets to take to school.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "She had 4 lessons in the morning – in the first lesson she gave out half of the sweets<BR>\n" );
document.write( "in her bag and then gave one to the teacher. In the second lesson she gave out half of<BR>\n" );
document.write( "the sweets left in her bag and then gave one to the teacher. She repeated this in<BR>\n" );
document.write( "lessons 3 and 4. By the end of lesson 4 she had 1 sweet left. How many sweets were<BR>\n" );
document.write( "in the bag at the start of the day? Show all of your working </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Work backwards.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "She had one sweet left at the end.  Just before that she gave one to to the lesson 4 teacher, so before that she had 2 sweets.  Those two sweets were half of what she had before she started lesson 4, so when she was done with lesson 3 she must have had 4 sweets.  She had given 1 to the lesson 3 teacher, so before she did that, she had 5.  5 was half of what she had before she started lesson 3...and so on you can work out the rest from here.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it\r<BR>\n" );
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