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How many games must be played to produce one final winner?

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A tennis tournament is announced, in which the winner of each games moves forwards to the next round, while the loser drops out of the competition.
One hundred players enter the tournament, How many games must be played to produce one final winner?

posted Jul 1, 2017 by anonymous

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One player down after every game, to have 1 winner out of 100, 99 players need to drop so 99 games

answer Jul 5, 2018 by Hanifa Mammadov



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