An old pirate wants to leave his treasure on an island. He has 3500 gold coins. He wants to spread this equally across 5 chests. Additionally, he will put a total of 500 silver coins and twice as many bronze coins as silver, all distributed equally across the chests. How many coins in total will be in each chest?
Thoughts? Step-by-step reasoning:
There will be 3500 gold coins / 5 chest = 700 gold coins in every chest. So, there will be 500 silver coins / 5 chests = 100 silver coins in each chest. Then, the number of bronze coins is double the number of silver coins, so there are 2 * 500 = 1000 bronze coins. So there will be 1000 bronze coins / 5 chests = 200 bronze coins in each chest. Finally, the total number of coins in every chest will be 700 gold coins + 100 silver coins + 200 bronze coins = 1000 coins.
Thus, the answer is 1000.