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The first round of a racquetball tournament begins with 148 players. Every round, half of the players lose and are eliminated from the tournament leaving 74 players in the second round. The tournament continues in the same fashion until one player finally wins the tournament. Determine if the scenario describes an arithmetic or a geometric sequence then write the formula for the sequence described.

Answer 1

Notice that 99 players need to be eliminated for there to be declared a winner. Notice also that every match eliminates exactly one person. Therefore, 99 matches are needed to eliminate 99 people and therefore declare a winner. The rest of the information is irrelevant. Therefore, the total number of matches is text divisible by 11.