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counting and probability junior

Problem

A baseball league consists of two four-team divisions. Each team plays every other team in its division games. Each team plays every team in the other division games with and . Each team plays a game schedule. How many games does a team play within its own division?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
On one team they play games in their division and games in the other. This gives . Since we start by trying M=5. This doesn't work because is not divisible by . Next, does not work because is not divisible by . We try does work by giving , and thus games in their division. seems to work, until we realize this gives , but so this will not work.
Final answer
B