Quiz

Question

one dove comes flying and see other doves and says: "Hello friends. Are you 100 or what?"
They answer: "No. To be 100 we had to be us plus us plus one half of us plus one quarter of us plus you."

The question is: How many doves were there?

Answer 1

36

Answer 2

Solve for x: 2x + x/2 + x/4 + 1=100.