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Vijay plays a game, wherein he tosses a coin and scores 9 points if heads turns up and 5 points if tails turns up. A total of exactly 182 points is required to win the game. In how many combinations of heads and tails can Vijay win?

Asked In TCS ishwarya (11 years ago)

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aditya rathi  (11 years ago)

4 combinations are possible...
(8,22),(18,4),(3,31),(13,13)

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sim  (11 years ago)

18-heads and 4-tails
as 18x9=162(this means 18 times head so the total sum would be this)
and 5x4=20
162+20=182(this is the minimum no that we can get we can also make the relation with more tails 31x5=155
and 9x3=27 so total 31 tails and 3 heads this is quite large )

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shivesh  (11 years ago)

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13*9+13*5

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ASHISH KUMAR  (11 years ago)

4 SOLUTIONS POSSIBLE:

(3,31) (4,18) (8,22) (13,13)

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khushboo singh  (11 years ago)

ans 13 combination (13 heads & 13 tails)
13*9+13*5=182

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Hammad  (11 years ago)

what is exact ans plz tell

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RAHUL KUMAR  (11 years ago)

combination would be only 3.
(19,4),(4,22),(13,13)...

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shreya gupta  (11 years ago)

in terms of points total possible combinations are
(162,20)
117,65
72,110
42,140
27,155
same will be the possibilities for heads and tails in multiples of 9 and 5 respectively
so total 5 combinations are possible

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