Question: One day while crossing the desert, Cori came upon an enormous pile of bananas. Cori loved bananas....? Hoowever, this was a very big pile, even for a camel. There were 4000 bananas. She couldn't eat them ass,so she decided to take some to the market, which was 1000 miles away. She could carry only 1000 bananas at a time. To keep up her strength, she had to eat one banane every mile as she walked. Cori thought very hard about her plan. What would suggest to help her?

Answer: Carry 1000 for one mile, eating one, then drop 998 of the rest when she stops, saving one for the trip back to the pile. Do it again. Eventually, she can take 3993 of them one mile. At this rate, after roughly 430 miles, she will have roughly 1000 bananas left (990, to be exact). Then, she can carry them all to market, eating one each mile, and be left with about 430 to sell (420, to be exact) after eating 570 on the way to market.\n\nThis is the greatest number of bananas she can have at the end.
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