Question

A game is played with a deck of 50 cards numbered from 1 to 50. At the end of each round, players calculate their score by adding the numbers on their cards.
What is the least score a player could have if he or she has 7 cards remaining at the end of a round?

Answer 1

Answer:

28, 329, 11

Step-by-step explanation:

What is the least score a player could have if he or she has 7 cards remaining at the end of a round?

• 28 points

What is the greatest score a player could have if he or she has 7 cards remaining at the end of a round?

• 329 points

Glenna needs to get 60 points in the next round to win the game. What is the least number of cards Glenna needs to be guaranteed a win?

• 11

Answer 2

Answer:

28

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the score is the sum of all cards a player has, the way to make it smallest is to use the smallest cards.  So the 7 smallest cards are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.  So you want to add these up.  This gets 28