Sharpen your logical skills with this riddle.
Cigars cannot be entirely smoked so a miser merchant collects cigar butts from a bar on his way home.
He can make one cigar out of every 5 butts that he finds.
Today, he has collected 125 cigar butts.
How many cigars will he be able to smoke?
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Answer: 31
Explanation:
From the 125 butts, he found he can make: 125/5 = 25 cigars
Once he has smoked these 25 cigars, he can make: 25/5 = 5 cigars
Once he has smoked these 5 cigars, he can make 1 more cigar.
So the total number of cigars he can smoke is: 25 + 5 + 1 = 31
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