Question

There are ten children standing in the line, not all of whom have the same number of cakes with them. If the first child distributes his cakes to the remaining six children such that he doubles their respective number of cakes, then he will be left with four cakes. Instead, if the second child takes away two cakes from each of the remaining six children, then he will be left with three cakes less than the number of cakes that the first child initially had. What is the total number of cakes that are there with the third to the seventh child

Answer 1

Look at the question that Steve answered 3 years ago
http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1372679603
It is identical to yours except there were 7 children instead of your 10
BUT, in your question it seems that they changed the 7 to 10 but failed to change the associated numbers.
I suspect a typo, if not , the question is confusing.