document.write( "Question 1161690: In a baseball tournament consisting of twelve teams, in which each team plays every other team once, how many games will there be?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Team 2 plays against 1, 3, 4,...,11, 12, also 11 teams, but we already counted 2 vs. 1 when we counted Team 1's opponents. Hence, 10 teams.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Similarly, Team 3 plays against 11 teams, but 2 of those have already been counted, so 9 teams.\r
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document.write( "Team  1      11\r\n" );
document.write( "Team  2      10\r\n" );
document.write( "Team  3       9\r\n" );
document.write( "Team  4       8\r\n" );
document.write( "Team  5       7\r\n" );
document.write( "Team  6       6\r\n" );
document.write( "Team  7       5\r\n" );
document.write( "Team  8       4\r\n" );
document.write( "Team  9       3\r\n" );
document.write( "Team 10       2\r\n" );
document.write( "Team 11       1\r\n" );
document.write( "Team 12       0\r\n" );
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