SOLUTION: larry curly and mo enter a math contest. questions are worth 2, 3, and 7 points. they each got 30 points and answered the same amount of questions total, but not the same amount of

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Question 421686: larry curly and mo enter a math contest. questions are worth 2, 3, and 7 points. they each got 30 points and answered the same amount of questions total, but not the same amount of each type of question. how many of each type of question did each of them ask?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20081)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Suppose Larry answered the most number of 7-pt questions.
Suppose Curly answered the next highest number of 7-pt-questions.
Suppose Mo answered the least number of 7-pt questions. Then:


                    Larry    Curly   Mo  
No. of 7-pointers     2        1      0         
No. of 3-pointers     0        5     10     
No. of 2-pointers     8        4      0   
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Total questions      10       10     10
Total points         30       30     30 

Edwin
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