Jerry and Jim are opposing participants in an online auction

Jerry and Jim are opposing participants in an online auction. Each has a constant bidding strategy: Jerry always bids up by raising $40 over any previous bid. Jim always bids up by doubling any previous bid. The auction begins with an initial bid by a third player, and progresses as follows: Jerry bids up first, and Jim follows. Jerry bids up again, and Jim follows and raises the bid to a final $600. What was the dollar value of the initial price?

AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #74078