A banana plantation is located next to a desert. The plantation owner has 3000 bananas that he wants to transport to the market by camel, across a 1000 kilometre stretch of desert. The owner has only one camel, which carries a maximum of 1000 bananas at any moment in time, and eats one banana every kilometre it travels. What is the largest number of bananas that can be delivered at the market?

Submitted by: Administrator
500 bananas. First camel takes 3000 bananas to point A at 250 km apart from plantation in 3 trips and we will be having 1750 bananas at point A.from there to point B 250 km apart from point A and we will have 1000 bananas at point B. Still we havw to go 500 km and having 1000 bananas in hand so we can deliver 500 bananas in market.
Submitted by: Administrator

750.
step 1: 0km-500km) after three rounds with 1000 each we wil get 3*500=1500(3*500=1500 camel eats)
step 2: 500km-750km:after two rounds with 750 each we will get 2*500=1000 (2*250=500 camel eats)
step 3: 750km-1000km:last one round of 1000 then we will get 1*750=750(1*250=250 camel eats)
Submitted by: Rakhi

1.
The camel can only carry 1000
and he eats 1 per kilometre. 1000 kam he eat 999 bananas. 1bananas left in 1round.
Submitted by: Sachin Joshi

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