Lala Ramdas runs a grocery shop in a small town. Various types of customers visit his shop to buy the goods. Selling goods to these customers involve weighing of things right from 1Kg. to 364 Kg. To make the process of weighing easy, Lalaji desires to use minimum number of weights.

Would you be able to tell the number of weights and their weighing capacity which would enable him to weigh from 1 Kg. to 364 Kg. goods with the help of minimum number of weights?

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Answer:

Only 6 weights: 1, 3, 9, 27, 81 and 243 Kg.