SOLUTION: In a large city league, the boys' baseball teams hold a tournament. If there are 40 teams in the league and half of the teams are eliminated in each round of games, how many teams

Question 845569: In a large city league, the boys' baseball teams hold a tournament. If there are 40 teams in the league and half of the teams are eliminated in each round of games, how many teams are left after 3 rounds?
(a) 40(1.05)*3
(b) 40(.05)*3
(c) 40(.5)*3
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

 

Hi,

how many teams are left after 3 rounds: 40,20,10, 

RELATED QUESTIONS

can you please help me solve this problem?!


In a large city league, the boys'... (answered by jim_thompson5910)
If there are 6 teams in the alpha league and 5 teams in the Beta league and if each team... (answered by jim_thompson5910)
During a season in a certain basketball league every team plays every other
team in the... (answered by Edwin McCravy)
I'm not really good at math. I just need to know if these answers are correct. 
Please... (answered by Alan3354)
This is a practice test im taking for Alg.1. Can you please tell me if i got these right?  (answered by Alan3354)
Albert scheduled all the games for round 1 of a baseball tournament, and when he counted,  (answered by MathTherapy)
In a basketball league of x teams of which every team plays every other twice, the total... (answered by ikleyn)
 There are n teams in a league and the number of games played is given by the polynomial... (answered by solver91311)
there are n teams in a league and the number of games played is given by the polynomial... (answered by ad_alta)