Apples and Friends

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.

After a few minutes each of your friends has one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.

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answer: 
You give an apple each to your first nine friends, and a basket with an apple to your tenth friend.

Each friend has an apple, and one of them has it in a basket.