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Sidharth sends an SMS to three of his friends and asked each one of them to forward the same SMS to three different persons with the instruction that they move the chain in the similar manner. Assuming that the chain is not broken and the cost of one SMS is 50 paisa, the amount spent when ten sets of SMS is sent is?
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Sidharth sends an Sms to three of his friends and answer, total amount spent to send all the SMS is 4920/-.
Given problem Sidharth sends an Sms to three of his friends and asked each one of them to forward the same Sms to three different persons with the instruction that they move the chain in the similar manner. Assuming that the chain is not broken and the cost of one Sms is 50 paisa, the amount spent when ten sets of Sms is sent is?
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According to our date One person sent SMS to his thre friends Now Each of these three friends will sent sms to their then friends so no. of Sms will be 3t This continues. So the no of SMS of sent forms will be..
The total cost of sending one SMS is 50 paise or Rs. 0.50.
The total number of SMS messages sent in six sets is:
3 + 3×3 + 3×3×3 + 3×3×3×3 + 3×3×3×3×3 + 3×3×3×3×3×3 = 1092
Therefore, the total cost of sending six sets of SMS messages is:
1092 x Rs. 0.50 = Rs. 546
So the correct answer is Rs. 546.