A Short Career.
2 friends met up after a long time. One of them was a brilliant scholar and the other an engineer. They decided to have some coffee. During the course of their conversations, they began to talk about their days at college.
"So, I heard that you played for the state cricket team for a year after college" said the engineer.
"Yes" replied the scholar, and wanting to test his friend, he said, "In my total career as a state player, I played n games and made (n+1)(2^n+1 -n-2) / 4 runs totally, and in the kth math I made k.2^n+1-k runs"
"Oh!" said the engineer, "that was a short career."
Can you find how long did the 'short' career last?
"So, I heard that you played for the state cricket team for a year after college" said the engineer.
"Yes" replied the scholar, and wanting to test his friend, he said, "In my total career as a state player, I played n games and made (n+1)(2^n+1 -n-2) / 4 runs totally, and in the kth math I made k.2^n+1-k runs"
"Oh!" said the engineer, "that was a short career."
Can you find how long did the 'short' career last?
Labels: logic, mathemagic
posted by Vago at
5:15 AM
9 Comments:
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It lasted for 1 year, he stated it at the begining.
Windy
He made 3 runs in 2 games.
Don't ask me how I got these numbers, I can't really understand what I did in this paper...
Cricket?
Isn't like a funny looking grasshopper?
Who cares? If it was 5 minutes, it was too long. Hopefully it was zero like someone else said.
O meant how many games did he play. Not the no. of years.
ONE game.
4/4 games = 1 game
How would I go about figuring this out? any help would be nice, Thank you.
uhm doesnt it say.............. "so i heard that you played for the state cricket team for a year after college" said the engineer. "Yes" replied the scholar."............. for a year. meaning one year. i win :]
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