SOLUTION: Three darts are thrown at a dart board. You can obtain a 15,8,3,or 1 on one shot. Or you can get zero because of a miss. You get three shots. What is the lowest POSITIVE number
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Question 25985: Three darts are thrown at a dart board. You can obtain a 15,8,3,or 1 on one shot. Or you can get zero because of a miss. You get three shots. What is the lowest POSITIVE number impossible to obtain?
Answer by mike69(9) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Ok. Let's make a chart
0 _0+0+0=0
1 _1+0+0=1
2 _1+1+0=2
3 _1+1+1=3
4 _3+1+0=4
5 _3+1+1=5
6 _3+3+0=6
7 _3+3+1=7
8 _8+0+0=8
9 _3+3+3=9
10_8+1+1=10
11_8+0+3=11
12_8+3+1=12
13_IMPOSSIBLE
14_8+3+3=14
15_15+0+0=15
16_8+8+0=16
and so on...
So i see an impossible. So 13 points is the answer.
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