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Puzzle Question: 

A bookworm eats from the first page of an encyclopedia to the last page. The bookworm eats in a straight line. The encyclopedia consists of ten 1000-page volumes and is sitting on a bookshelf in the usual order. Not counting covers, title pages, etc., how many pages does the bookworm eat through?

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Intermediate

On a book shelf the first

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2008-03-22 08:53.

On a book shelf the first page of the first volume is on the "inside"



   _                              _

 B|  |                           |  |F

 A|1 |...........................|10|R

 C|  |                           |  |O

 K|  |                           |  |N

  |  |                           |  |T

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so the bookworm eats only through the cover of the first volume, then 8 times 1000 pages of Volumes 2 - 9, then through the cover to the 1st page of Vol 10. He eats 8,000 pages. If the bookworm ate the first page and the last page, it ate 8,004 pages.