Annoying little riddle

Mason- said:
Basically my friend asked me this riddle and it is not a difficult riddle at all but we are still arguing about it.

Here it goes:

Farmer brown goes to town with X amount of melons, he sells half of his melons, and then sells half of a melon, he is left with one WHOLE melon.

How many melons did he take to town?

Now the answer on the website was 3, I do not dispute this answer, it is correct.
Sell half, 1.5 left
sell half 1 left
and you have 1 WHOLE melon left.

I am arguing that 4 is also correct
Sell half, 2 left
sell half of a melon, 1.5 left
and you have 1 WHOLE melon left...

you have half a melon but you still have 1 whole melon.

if the riddle was phrased ONLY left with a whole melon,

I would agree 4 is incorrect, but I can't see why 4 isn't right.

Please confirm I'm not wrong :P
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Trick question innit. Farmer brown had X Melons (where X is based on the size of his car).
 
Sounds like a typical riddle to me...

One "proper" answer and about a dozen others if you are a lateral thinker... which most riddles are designed to be for...

I don't think there are many that don't descend into debate about the "right" answer.. :p

On the other hand they are usually more ambiguous than that one.
 
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