QUESTION

CSAT

Easy

Reasoning

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In a tournament of Chess having 150 entrants, a player is eliminated whenever he loses a match. It is given that no match results in a tie/draw. How many matches are played in the entire tournament?

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Explanation

In this type of single-elimination tournament, each match results in one player being eliminated. Since there are 150 players, matches will continue until only one player remains as the winner.

Explanation:

Each match eliminates one player.
To reduce the number of players from 150 to 1, a total of 149 eliminations are needed.
Therefore, 149 matches must be played to eliminate 149 players and leave just one winner.

Thus, the correct answer is 149.

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