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Question :
You ask for the type of item in box 45. Instead of being given a direct answer, you are told that there are 31 items of the same type as box 45 in boxes 1 to 44 and 43 items of the same type as box 45 in boxes 46 to 100. What is the maximum possible number of different types of items?
Option A
is the correct answer.
Explanatory Answer
There have to be then at least 31 + `1 + 43 = 75 gifts of same type, Thus maximum possible number of boxes = 5 when all types are lest 1,2,4,18,75
