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By speedster, history, 11 years ago, In English

I have been trying to solve This problem unable to do it i looked at the solution but can't understand how this why is taking a factor of 2 helping ?

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Indeed, multiplying everything by 2 helps because you can make each person enter at an even time and leave at an odd time, so you don't have to worry about what to count first.