A woman with a basket of eggs finds that if she removes either 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 at a time from the basket, there is always one egg left over. if she removes 7 eggs at a time from the basket, there are no eggs left over. if the basket holds up to 500 eggs, how many eggs does she have?

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Deacon Barnes

1 July, 09:05

A woman with a basket of eggs finds that if she removes either 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 at a time from the basket, there is always one egg left over. if she removes 7 eggs at a time from the basket, there are no eggs left over. if the basket holds up to 500 eggs, how many eggs does she have?

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Alicia Jenkins · Answer 1

Zero? i feel like this is a trick question. no matter how many eggs there are in the basket ... if she keeps removing them 7 at a time the basket will always be empty.