Question of the Day #287 (25/6/10)

[Kazza]

Firstly, sorry for no QOTD yesterday. I posted this very question but, this morning, after not receiving any PM's, I realised that it hadn't worked so here it is again

There are 100 golfers in the local match play contest. If a player loses a match, he is immediately eliminated from the contest. How many matches will be played to determine the winner?


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[andysadd]

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[Adirondack Jack]

PM sent before I hit the links.

 

[Adirondack Jack]

Just realized my earlier PM is a sub-par performance. Read the question wrong- Dang! :spank:

 

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[06fz6green]

Just sent a pm a couple seconds a go

 

[Kazza]

SIZE="3"]There are 100 golfers in the local match play contest. If a player loses a match, he is immediately eliminated from the contest. How many matches will be played to determine the winner? [/SIZE]

If there is to be only one winner, than there are 99 loses, therefore there were 99 matches. You can also do this with math: in round 1 there would be 50 matches to produce 50 winners, round 2 would have 25 matches to produce 25 winners, round 3 would have 12 matches to produce 12 winners ( one person of the 25 winners would have to wait until later to play again ), round 4 would have 6 matches to produce 6 winners, round 5 would have 3 matches to produce 3 winners, round 6 would have 2 matches ( the player left out before would now play to make it an even field ) to produce 2 winners, these 2 would play for the championship. So: 50+25+12+6+3+2+1=99.


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[wolfe1down]

Doh! Missed this one