A banana plantation is located next to a desert.

The plantation owner has 3000 bananas that

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The Solution: 533 1/3 bananas.
Explanation: Since there are 3000 bananas and the camel can carry at most 1000 bananas, at
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Point A in the abouve picture cannot be the market. This is because the camel can never tra
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Note that section PA must be in the solution (as explained above), but section AB or sectio
The camel can carry away at most 2000 bananas from point A. This means the distance between
The situation in point B is similar to that in point A. The camel can't transport more than
The full scenario looks as follows: first, the camel takes 1000 bananas to point A. There i

Answer is 533 and 1/3 banana

If Camel just picks up a load of 1,000 bananas and heads out across the desert, she will ea
Camel needs to eat five bananas per mile so long as she is trying to ferry more than 2,000
To understand why, let's start at the beginning.
Camel is standing there in the oasis with 3,000 bananas. She picks up the first 1,000. Say
Now she can pick up the second 1,000 bananas and do the same thing, dropping 998 at the one
With the third load, there's no return trip: all her bananas have been moved one mile.
How many did she eat up? Five: two on the first round trip, two on the second, and one on t
She could keep this up, one mile at a time, for 200 miles, by which time she would have use
(Note that there are no monkeys or hungry humans out there in the sand dunes, and no other
Once she has the 2,000 bananas out in the desert, Camel the Mathematical Camel reasons that
It's hot, but Camel takes a deep breath, picks up the 1,000 bananas, and slogs on. This tim

433 2/3 miles farther on, and lighter by 433 2/3 bananas (she's a nibbler), Camel pads out
In short
533 1/3 bananas well 533 anyway
First leg-out, back, out, back, out. 5 one way trips bananas consumed 1000, bananas moved 2
Status 2000 bananas at unit 200
Second leg out, back, out. 3 one way trips
Bananas consumed 1000, bananas moved 1000
1000/3=333 1/3 units
Status 1000 bananas at unit 200+333 1/3=533 1/3
Third les one trip 466 2/3 units (1000-533 1/3)
Bananas consumed 466 2/3
Bananas delivered on far side 533 1/3.

Posted by: poornimaa

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The number of Bananas that were transported was "0".
The camel starts with 1000 bananas and it eats 1 banana for each km. So by the moment it re

Posted by: Ranganath

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the camel can never end up carrying any bananas as it wud eat one banana for one km, and th

Posted by: abishahb

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Camel cannot reach with even a bana