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Post by lawrieleslie on Jan 29, 2008 8:03:43 GMT
Please post your answers to Tuesdays puzzle on this thread. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2008 8:22:40 GMT
First go (probably of many!!).
Start from the final and work back (final to semi’s to quarters etc). To do this I multiplied 2 by 2 then by 2 again and so on until I got to the number nearest to 35240 without going over. This number is 32768. The difference is 2472 so you would need that many players to qualify from the preliminary round.
As you would need that many to qualify you would need double that in the prelims as half would go out so there would be 4944 players in the premlin round.
Premlin round matches – 2472
Next round matches - 16384
Next round matches – 8192
Next round matches – 4096
Next round matches – 2048
Next round matches – 1024
Next round matches – 512
Next round matches – 256
Next round matches – 128
Next round matches – 64
Next round matches – 32
Next round matches – 16
Next round matches – 8
Next round matches – 4
Next round matches – 2
Next round matches – 1
Total – 35239
Probably way off the mark!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2008 8:41:26 GMT
Minimum number of prelim matches – 2472?????????????
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jan 29, 2008 10:18:30 GMT
Sorry delilah wrong on both. Also the problem of working out the number of matches has to be done by logic not by maths alone.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2008 10:35:01 GMT
But I have no logic!!!
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Post by Tom_stokiepmre89 on Jan 29, 2008 12:50:52 GMT
dont you just have the number of teams, then minus 1, and thats how many games are played?
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Post by Tom_stokiepmre89 on Jan 29, 2008 12:51:56 GMT
please note, not only am i guessing the answer, but im guessing the question aswell, i have no idea whats going on ???
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2008 12:55:39 GMT
I hope you’re not right Ben!! It took me ages to work out an answer that was completely wrong, if you’ve just guessed the correct answer I will not be happy!!!  |
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Post by Tom_stokiepmre89 on Jan 29, 2008 12:56:54 GMT
whats the question?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2008 13:07:28 GMT
Name a junction on the M6?
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Post by Tom_stokiepmre89 on Jan 29, 2008 13:08:11 GMT
1 ?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2008 13:13:45 GMT
No sorry, it was 8.
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Post by Tom_stokiepmre89 on Jan 29, 2008 13:18:50 GMT
dang it
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