Twenty-four teams will take part in this year’s Squareball World Cup tournament.In the first stage of the tournament the teams w
ill compete in four groups of six.Within each group all the teams will play each other once.The top two teams from each group will progress to the second stage, where they will compete in a single league.Here, each team will carry forward the result from the match against the team they have already played in their group and play each of the other teams once.The top two teams at the end of the second stage will play again in the final to determine the winners of the Cup.How many matches will be played altogether during this year’s Squareball World Cup tournament?
The number of matches that will be played altogether during this year’s Squareball World Cup tournament will be 99 matches.
In the first stage of the tournament since the teams will compete in four groups of six, then there'll be 15 matches played per group.
Since there are 4 groups, the total matches okayed during the group stage will be: 15 × 4 = 60 matches. Therefore, 60 matches will be played during the group stage.
Since the top two teams from each group will progress to the second stage, and play in a single league, then the number of matches played will be 28 matches.
In the final, there'll only be one match played.
Therefore, the total matches played will be: = 60 + 28 + 1 = 99 matches.
A fused sentence is a run-on sentence in which two independent clauses are fused together with no appropriate conjunction or punctuation. Hope this helps.
