Brainteaser 1847: Home’s best
From The Sunday Times, 8th February 1998 [link]
Four football teams — Albion, Borough, City and District — each play each other twice, once at home and once away. They get three points for a win and one for a draw. Last season, each team did worse in the away match than in the corresponding home match, scoring fewer goals and getting fewer points. The final position was as follows:
What were the two scores when Borough played District?
This is the final puzzle to use the title Brainteaser. The following puzzle is Teaser 1848.
[teaser1847]
Jim Randell 8:39 am on 18 August 2020 Permalink |
This Python program uses the [[
Football()
]] helper class from the enigma.py library.It runs in 452ms.
Run: [ @repl.it ]
Solution: The scores in the Borough vs. District matches were: B (home) vs. D (away) = 4 – 2; D (home) vs. B (away) = 3 – 3.
The scores in the matches are: (home vs. away)
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