A solo dice game is played thusly: one each turn, a normal pair of dice is rolled. The score is calculated by taking the product, rather than the sum, of the two numbers shown on the dice.
On a particular game, the score for the second roll is five more than the score for the first; the score for the third roll is six less than that of the second; the score for the fourth roll is eleven more than that of the third; and the score for the fifth roll is eight less than that of the fourth. What was the score for each of these five throws?
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10, 15, 9, 20, 12
ReplyDeleteI agree with Heather.
ReplyDeleteI went about this by putting everything in terms of the first roll. Therefore:
R1 = ?
R2 = R1 + 5
R3 = R1 - 1
R4 = R1 + 10
R5 = R1 + 2
Creating a multiplication table up to 6 and eliminating all of the numbers in it that are not possible you end up with one solution of:
R1 = 10
putting that into the rest of the equations give you the roll order of:
10, 15, 9, 20, 12
Looks like I agree with both of you. Like Dan, I had to write out all the possibilities and see what could happen. I listed out the possible Round 1 scores (products of two dice: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 30, 36). Then I checked each one to see if the other round results were possible. For instance, if Round 1 was 1, then round three has to be 0, which is not possible. If round 1 was 2, then round 2 was 7, also impossible. Keep on going till you eliminate all the other possibilities.
ReplyDeleteThat leaves (as Heather and Dan already said) 10, 15, 9 , 20, 12.
I agree with heather Dan and mike
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