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How many bags did he use after the distribution?

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A farmer was blessed and got himself a cow that is able to produce gold liquid out of her udder. The farmer hurried to milk her and used his skill to process it into gold coins. He made 500 gold coins, Now he wants to divide them to maximum number of bags such that each bag will have a different amount of coins(two bags with three coins each are not allowed, also a bag with 0 coins are not allowed).

How many bags did he use after the distribution?

posted May 7, 2019 by anonymous

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One of solutions below:
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+32+33=500
31 bags

answer May 7, 2019 by Hanifa Mammadov



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