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From: Kevin Rowe
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:00

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When an old man dies, his sons gather at the lawyers office to hear his =
will read out.

The 1st son was given 1000 + 1/7 of what was left. The second son was =
given 2000 + 1/7 of what was left. The 3rd son was given 3000+ 1/7 of =
what was left. and so on. =20

They all recieved the same amount of money.


How much money was there in total?

How many sons were there?


Good luck
 kev@tokenmusic.co.uk


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From: "Kevin Rowe" <kevin.rowe2@tesco.net>
Subject: help
Date: 2000/03/26
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