Puzzle - 3 Continued ....

Here is another version of the same puzzle. Prabhu Dayal sent this to me. 

An apple vendor has 1000 apples and 10 empty boxes. He asks his son to place all the 1000 apples in the 10 boxes in such a manner that if he asks for any number of apples from 1 to 1000, his son should be able to pick them in terms of boxes - i.e. by picking up one or more full boxes. How did the son place all the apples among the 10 boxes, given that any number of apples can be put in one box? 

If you are wondering where Prabhu is then he is the second most important man in Kuwait. Indian population in Kuwait is the second largest and he is our ambassador there.
One should intuitively guess the correct answer. But if you want second hint then Pabhu’s puzzle can be solved even if there were 1023 that is 23 more than Prabhu stipulated in his puzzles or one less than 1k. 
You remember puzzle number one about 250 statement where n^th statement says that n statements are false and one had to find out how many of these statements are true. Many of you, studying in the Engineering colleges, had agreed with Tanmay (student in an Engineering college) that first 125 statements are true. The rest had agreed with me that only one statement namely 249^th was correct (for detail answer see puzzle number two). This surprised me. And I asked Tanmay if this question was popular in the engineering colleges. This is what he had to say.
‘Actually the question was originally asked in one of the campus placement interview at DCE a couple of years ago. An applicant answered it correctly in 37 seconds. He was offered a 6.5 lakh package by IBM.’

Lucky guy. I don't know if IBM thought about the two answers merely because of the language of the puzzle.