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you have been given the task of transporting 3000 apples ,1000 miles from apple land to bananaville. your truck can carry 1,000 apples at a time. every time you travel a mile towards bananaville you must pay a tax of 1 apple but you pay nothing when going in the other direction towards appleland.what is the highest number of apples you can get to bananaville?

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I believe this is a riddle and the answer is 833 apples!
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