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#1 2009-03-02 04:03:14
- Jai Ganesh
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Cricket Question:-
A team requires 7 runs to win in the remaining three deliveries of a Limited Overs International match. Both the batsmen at the crease are batting on 94. The team wins; both the batsmen score centuries. How is this possible?
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#2 2009-03-02 04:53:49
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#3 2009-03-02 16:36:30
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Cricket Question:-
emadstats,
Your answer is correct. Well done!
But I had answered this question in a different way!
I've edited the post to 'hide' the answer.
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#4 2009-03-02 22:15:25
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Re: Cricket Question:-
Its not much different.
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#5 2009-03-02 22:24:18
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Cricket Question:-
Good thinking, JaneFairfax!
Thats yet another possibility, although, as you admitted, not much different from the solution posted.
Question #2:-
A cricket match has just started. Two legitimate deliveries have been bowled. The team's score is 5/0 (or 0/5, as in Australia). Batsman No.1 is 5 not out. Batsman No.1 is at the batting crease, batsman No.2 is the runner. Batsman No.1 has to face the third delivery. How is this possible?
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#6 2009-03-02 23:44:55
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#7 2009-03-03 01:52:14
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Re: Cricket Question:-
Exactly, JaneFairfax!
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#8 2009-03-03 15:29:03
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Question #3:-
With two balls left to be bowled in a cricket one-day match, the scores are tied (so the batting team needs 1 run to win). The batting side has lost 5 wickets. Batsman A is on strike, on 99 not out. Batsman B, also on 99 not out, is the non-striker.
The bowler bowls the penultimate ball. It is a dot ball (no runs scored) and a legitimate ball. The scores are still tied, but now there is only one more ball of the match left.
The final ball is bowled. It is a legitimate ball. No extra runs or penalty runs are conceded. The winning runs are hit. The batting team wins by 5 wickets, and both batsmen A and B remain on 99 not out.
How is this possible? (NB: The winning runs are scored off the bat.)
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#9 2009-03-11 05:24:45
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#10 2009-03-11 06:02:04
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Re: Cricket Question:-
The solution is technically correct. It is more of a 'Lateral Thinking puzzle'.
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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