Radha takes some flowers in a basket and visits three temples one by one. At each temple, she offers one half of the flowers from the basket. If she is left with 3 flowers at the end, find the number of flowers she had in the beginning.
Let the total number of flowers Radha had at first be x
After visiting first temple number of flowers remaining with
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= 
After visiting second temple number of flowers remaining
her = 
= 
After visiting third temple number of flowers remaining
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= 
At last flowers remaining are 3
i.e., 
⇒ 
(take L.C.M on left side and solve)
⇒ 2x-x = 3 × 8
(multiply by 8 on both the sides)
⇒ x = 24
∴Number of flowers she took to temple at first is 24
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