people: participate in a cards game. There are cards, and there is positive integer number on each card (the numbers are different). After each draw, each player will receive randomly one card from these cards, and the number on the cards are the score of them after each draw. After or more draws, A receives in total, B receives , C receives .
If in the last draw, B received the card with highest score. So in the first draw, who receive the card with the score in the middle?
Note: If are the numbers on each card, and , the score in the middle is b
Give the answer as the product of b and the number of the person who received this card in the first draw of A, B, C
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After the game, the total points of A , B , C are 3 9 points. So the number of draws and the sum of the numbers on the cards are the divisors of 3 9 .
Moreover, the divisors of 3 9 are 1 , 3 , 1 3 , 3 9 . The smallest possible sum of the numbers on the cards is 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and base on the information in the problem, the smallest possible number of draws is 2 .
Base on the information above, we can conclude that the number of draws is 3 and the sum of the numbers on the cards is 1 3 .
Now, we call I , I I , I I I are the cards with number a , b , c . Because A received 2 0 p o i n t s after 3 draws, so the smallest possible value on the card with highest score (card I I I ) is 7 because 7 × 3 = 2 1 > 2 0 ∗ .
B received card I I I in the last draw, so the maximum possible value on card I I I is 8 (in the case the card with lowest score (card I ) had the value of 1 and B received this card twice)
The maximum possible value on card I is 2 . Because if the maximum possible value on this card is 3 , so the maximum possible value on card I I I is: 1 3 − 3 − 4 = 6 (does not satisfy ∗ )
Now, from the information above, there are 4 possible cases of the numbers on the cards:
8 ; 4 ; 1
8 ; 3 ; 2
7 ; 5 ; 1
7 ; 4 ; 2
From these 4 cases, the first case (from the left) is the only case which can give us 2 0 p o i n t s after 3 d r a w s
Now, here are the points of the players after 3 d r a w s (You can easily prove this!)
A : 8 + 8 + 4 = 2 0
B : 1 + 1 + 8 = 1 0
C : 4 + 4 + 1 = 9
In the last draw, B received 8 p o i n t s , so A received 4 p o i n t s and C received 1 p o i n t .
So in the first draw, C received 4 p o i n t s
Finally, the result of the product we have to find is 4 × 3 = 1 2 ( 4 is the value of this card and 3 is the number of the person)