Baseball Enigma Personal Comment: This is too easy!

Baseball Enigma

Story: 97 baseball teams participate in an annual state tournament. The way the champion is chosen for this tournament is by the same old elimination schedule. That is, the 97 teams are to be divided into pairs, and the two teams of each pair play against each other. After a team is eliminated from each pair, the winners would be again divided into pairs, etc.

Enigma: How many games must be played to determine a champion?

Read on for the answer......

Solution: 96. Since there are 97 teams, 1 team loses each game and you want to end up with one remaining team, you just hav 1 losing team 96 times and have the remaining one team left. Similarly, if you want to have 7 teams undefeated, you play 90 games.

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