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):
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
