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by alltimeacheiver » Fri May 06, 2011 10:55 am
A basketball team composed of 12 players scored 100 points in a particular contest. If none of the individual players scored fewer than 7 points, what is the greatest number of points that an individual player might have scored?

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by manpsingh87 » Fri May 06, 2011 11:06 am
alltimeacheiver wrote:A basketball team composed of 12 players scored 100 points in a particular contest. If none of the individual players scored fewer than 7 points, what is the greatest number of points that an individual player might have scored?

7
13
16
21
23
as each of the 12 players scored minimum of 7 points; therefore minimum score of a team in which each of the 12 players contributed 7 points each is 7*12=84; now the left over points are 16; now as we want a maximum score that an individual player might have scored therefore we will give that 16 left over points to one of the players; therefore maximum points would be 7+16=23 hence E
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