A huge ping-pong tournament is held in Beijing, with 65,536 participants at the
start of the tournament. Each round of the tournament eliminates half the
participants.
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Question 1
1.
If p(r) represents the number of participants remaining after r rounds of play,
write a formula to model the number of participants remaining.
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Question 2
2.
Use your model to determine how many participants remain after 10 rounds of
play.
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Question 3
3.
How many rounds of play will it take to determine the champion ping-pong player?
From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. High School 1 Algebra, Module 3, Topic A, Lesson 7. Internet. Available from https://www.engageny.org/resource/algebra-i-module...; accessed 28/Oct/2015.