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@ByteInBits
With the help of Excel:
The division gives 204 coins to each person, so there were 1,020 coins left when the fifth person left. That’s 4/5 of the number of coins there were when he entered + the coin from the door. So there were 1,276 coins when he entered, and he put 255 coins in the hole.
We calculate the same way for the other players.
There were initially 3,121 coins, 5 went to the door and 2,096 into the hole.
The mathematician wins 175 coins, or £17,500. The other players keep 169 coins, so they don’t have £17,000.
I haven’t thought about the last question yet.