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prealgebra junior
Problem
Lola, Lolo, Tiya, and Tiyo participated in a ping pong tournament. Each player competed against each of the other three players exactly twice. Shown below are the win-loss records for the players. The numbers and represent a win or loss, respectively. For example, Lola won five matches and lost the fourth match. What was Tiyo's win-loss record?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
We can calculate the total number of wins ('s) by seeing how many matches were players, which is matches played. Then, we can calculate the # of wins already on the table, which is , so there are wins left in the mystery player. Now, we will make the key observation that there is only wins ('s) per column as there are winners and losers in each round. Strategically looking through the columns counting the 's and putting our own 's when the column isn't already full yields .
Final answer
A