DAY 392

Before you is a bowl filled with $50, $20, $10, and $5 bills. You are blindfolded and told you may pull out the bills one at a time, but you must stop when you have four bills of the same denomination.  What is the most money you could pull out of the bowl before you had to stop?

Answer:


$305 .......... You could pull out three $50's, three $20's, three $10's, three $5's, and another $50. Another way of thinking of it is: $50 + $20 + $10 + $5 = $85 ............... $85 x 3 = $255 ...............  $255 + $50 = $305.