You have been given the task of transporting 3,000 apples 1,000 miles from Appleland 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 highest number of apples you can get to Bananaville?
0 because since your only carrying 1000 apples and you have to pay 1 apple per mile and there is 1000 miles then by the time you get to bananaville you well have 0 apples