How many candles are they left with in the end ?

Question

Bhavesh Patel was having a candle light dinner with his girlfriend. Suddenly a cold gush of wind entered through the open window and three of the ten candles were extinguished. Assuming that none of the other candles were extinguished.

How many candles are they left with in the end ?

Answer 1

Assuming the question was how many candles are left unburnt at the end the answer is 3 as they were the ones that were extinguished by the wind.

If the question was How many candles were burning right at the end of the gust of wind, then there were 7 of them burning.

So depending on what "end" we are talking about we can have 2 different answers.

Answer 2

I think the answer is 10, they left with 10 candles.