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There is a soccer tournament with 16 teams. Each team must play every other team. You want to know how many games will be played. Explain how you would create a simpler problem to help solve this problem.

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Answer:ontinuing this process shows that for 16 teams, there are 8 + 4 + 2 + 1, or 15 total games. Using brackets can be done for any number of teams.

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it’s 12

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