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abtia

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Hello ,
I have the following QS and I have an idea for that but I do no know whether it is true so please help me and say if it is true and if not please guid me:

QS:We have 10 tennis balls and 3 bowls ,we want to put these balls in these bowls in a way that the number of balls in every bowl is an odd number???

for solving it I put 5 of them in one bowl and 4 of them in another and 1 of them in the last one then I put the bowl which contains 1 ball in the one with 4 balls but I think it is a bit strange and unfortunately I do not have another idea So please help me whether it is true or not???
 
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abtia said:
QS:We have 10 tennis balls and 3 bowls ,we want to put these balls in these bowls in a way that the number of balls in every bowl is an odd number???
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If you add three odd integers you will always get an odd integer.
Ten is an even integer. So what is wrong with the problem?
 
You know how can we add 3 balls ???we have only 10 balls and we want to share them between 3 bowls in a way that every bowl has odd number of balls.You know if you divide 10 by 3 the answer is
3.33 so how it is possible to do that??
 
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abtia said:
You know how can we add 3 balls ???we have only 10 balls and we want to share them between 3 bowls in a way that every bowl has odd number of balls.You know if you divide 10 by 3 the answer is 3.33 so how it is possible to do that??
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It is impossible to do what the problem asks you to do.
 
Hello, abtia!

This is a classic puzzle, and you found the solution!

We have 10 tennis balls and 3 bowls.
We want to put these balls bn these bowls in a way that
the number of balls in every bowl is an odd number.


For solving it I put 5 of them in one bowl and 4 of them in another and 1 of them in the last one.
Then I put the bowl which contains 1 ball in the one with 4 balls.
But I think it is a bit strange, and unfortunately I do not have another idea.
So please help me whether it is correct or not?
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You are correct!
Each bowl now contains an odd number of balls.

 
Thanks to all of you for participating in this post,
I have another QS:can I say these kind of questions are related to algebra?If not in what category should I ask it???
 
Denis,
for making all numbers odd,did you do as I did?I mean putting two bowls together??
 
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