Question

A music competition on television had five elimination rounds. After each elimination, only half of the contestants were sent to the next round. The table below shows the number of contestants in each round of the competition:

Answer 1

There would have to be a total of 32 contestants at the start of the show, 
next round there were only 16
next 8
then 4
and the final round would have had 2 contestants trying to win