Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Problem: two friends a , b decided to share a lot of apples . each of them had half of the total plus half an apple in order . after each of them took their share 4 time , no apples were left . how many apples were there ? 
Options: a ) 250 , b ) 255 , c ) 254 , d ) 253 , e ) 251
Output (English): e