Pirates Of Caribbean-Chinese remainder Theorem
A band of 17 pirates stole a sack of gold coins. When they tried to divide the fortune into equal portions, 3 coins remained. In the ensuing brawl over who should get the extra coins, one pirate was killed. The wealth redistributed, but this time an equal division left 10 coins. Again an argument develop, another pirate was killed. But now the total was evenly distributed among the pirates. What was the least number of gold coins that could have been stolen?
Using the same formula as below,we going to find the least number of the stolen gold
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Thus,the answer is 3930 gold coins.
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