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Maths Week: Your Wednesday puzzle
Go forth and multiply.
IT’S MATHS WEEK, and as is our annual tradition here, we’re setting you a puzzle a day with all answers published on the site on Sunday.
Get puzzling!
TODAY’S Q:
In a knock- out tennis tournament there are 32 contestants.
a. How many matches will the eventual winner play?
b. How many matches will there be in in total?
2. In a round robin competition every contestant plays every other contestant. If there are 5 contestants, how many matches will there be?
All answers will be published on TheJournal.ie on Sunday.
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