Friday, November 11, 2011
Can you answer the brain puzzle "a puzzling run" puzzle is stated in more detail section?
a two-team cross-country running meet is scored as follows. each team has seven runners. each runner's order of finish in the ace is the number of points he or she scores for the team. thus, the first place runner scoures one point, second place scoures two, and so on. the points scored by the first five runners on each team are totaled,and the teamwith the lowest score wins. (the sixth and seventh runners on each team are disregarde.) for example, if a team's runners finish 2-3-5-6-8-9-11, that team scores 2+3+5+6+8=24 points. two teams, the Xenia Xephyrs and the Clarville Couriers, just finished a meet. the coach of the xephyrs remarks, "our fifth runner finished in 10th place.the couriers' forth and fifth runners together scored half as many points asour whole team." the coach of the couriers adds, "one of our runners placed second, and another placed sixth." what was the final score?
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