Concept explainers
Elimination Tournaments In an elimination tournament the teams are arranged in opponent pairs for the first round, and the winner of each round goes on to the next round until the champion emerges. The following diagram illustrates a 16-team tournament bracket, in which the 16 participating teams are arranged on the left under Round 1 and the winners of each round are added as the tournament progresses. The top team in each game is considered the “home” team, so the top-to-bottom order matters.
To seed a tournament means to select which teams to play each other in the first round according to their preliminary ranking. For instance, in professional tennis and NCAA basketball the seeding is set up in the following order based on the preliminary rankings: 1 versus 16, 8 versus 9, 5 versus 12, 4 versus 13, 6 versus 11, 3 versus 14, 7 versus 10, and 2 versus 15.23 Exercises 65–68 are based on various types of elimination tournaments. (Leave each answer as a formula.)
Refer back to Exercise 67. In the 2013 NCAA playoffs there were 10 upsets in the first round, 4 in the second round, and 3 in each of the third and fourth rounds.25 How many configurations (filling in of all the winners in all the rounds) of this type were possible? (In the last two rounds, rankings are not taken into consideration.)
Want to see the full answer?
Check out a sample textbook solutionChapter 7 Solutions
Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus (MindTap Course List)
- could you explain this pleasethe answer is has sum 1but i dont know how to calculate itarrow_forwardcan you explain why the answer is 1/3arrow_forwardThe position of a particle that moves along the x-axis is defined by x = - 3t^2 + 12^t - 6 f, where t is in seconds. For the time interval t = 0 to t = 3 s, (1) plot the position, velocity, and acceleration as functions of time; (2) calculate the distance traveled; and (3) determine the displacement of the particleshow the graph and write the solution with a penarrow_forward
- The position of a particle that moves along the x-axis is defined by x = - 3t^2 + 12^t - 6 f, where t is in seconds. For the time interval t = 0 to t = 3 s, (1) plot the position, velocity, and acceleration as functions of time; (2) calculate the distance traveled; and (3) determine the displacement of the particleshow the graph and write the solution with a penarrow_forwardThe answer for number 1 is D Could you show me whyarrow_forwardThe path of a particle moving in a straight line is given by s = t^3 - 6t^2+ 9t + 4, where s is in ft and t in seconds. a. Finds and a when v = 0. b. Find s and v when a = 0.show the graph if needed and write the solution with a penarrow_forward
- How would i solve this. More info is that b =1 but it might be better to solve this before making the substitutionarrow_forwardLet m(t) be a continuous function with a domain of all real numbers. The table below shows some of the values of m(t) . Assume the characteristics of this function are represented in the table. t -3 -2 8 11 12 m(t) -7 6 3 -9 0 (a) The point (-3, -7) is on the graph of m(t). Find the corresponding point on the graph of the transformation y = -m(t) + 17. (b) The point (8, 3) is on the graph of m(t). Find the corresponding point on the graph of the transformation y = -m (−t) . 24 (c) Find f(12), if we know that f(t) = |m (t − 1)| f(12) =arrow_forwardSuppose the number of people who register to attend the Tucson Festival of Books can be modeled by P(t) = k(1.1), where t is the number of days since the registration window opened. Assume k is a positive constant. Which of the following represents how long it will take in days for the number of people who register to double? t = In(1.1) In(2) In(2) t = In(1.1) In(1.1) t = t = t = In(2) - In(k) In(2) In(k) + In(1.1) In(2) - In(k) In(1.1)arrow_forward
- Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition...AlgebraISBN:9780547587776Author:HOLT MCDOUGALPublisher:HOLT MCDOUGALGlencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897...AlgebraISBN:9780079039897Author:CarterPublisher:McGraw HillAlgebra & Trigonometry with Analytic GeometryAlgebraISBN:9781133382119Author:SwokowskiPublisher:Cengage
- Algebra and Trigonometry (MindTap Course List)AlgebraISBN:9781305071742Author:James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem WatsonPublisher:Cengage Learning