DAshing+Through+the+Snow

Dashing Through The Snow By Jasmine

Solution

Polar Bear 1 8 Yetiu 2 7Snow Bunny 3 6Snow Bunny 4 5Polar Bear 5 4Yeti 6 3Yeti 7 2 Snow Bunny 8 1Polar Bear 9 0 Frostbite valley school had a Winter carnival. Three teams entered the ski race. They were Snow Bunnies, Yetis, and the Polar Bears. Each person was given points based on which place they finished in. First place received 8 points and last place received 0 points. Everyone else received points in order from 8 to 0. In order to figure out the total number of points, I added the numbers 0 to 8. The sum was 36. Then I divided by 3 because there were 3 teams. The answer was 12. So I knew each team had to have 12 points each because in the problem it states that each team had the same number of points. It also said that a Polar Bear scored 0 points. So I needed other two addends that equaled 12. I took 8 and 4. 0 + 4 + 8 =12. Then I went to the Snow Bunnies. The first two Snow Bunnies finished next to each other. The only choices would be for them to receive 5 and points or 6 and 7 points. Since 6+7=13, I had to pick 5 and 6. Since 5+6=11, the last Snow Bunny received 1 point: 5+6+1=12. And for the Yetis I took the remaining numbers and added them together to get 12.
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Extra Solution

Team Yeti Snow Bunny Polar Bear Snow Bunny Polar Bear Yeti Polar Bear Yeti Snow Bunny Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Points 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

First, one of the Snow Bunnies scored 0 so the other two had to have a score of 12. So I took 5 and 7 and added them to get 12. I couldn’t pick 8 and 4 because one of the Yetis scored 8 points. Since the Yeti scored 8, the other team members had to have a sum of 4. 3 + 1 = 4 and 4 + 8 =12. And I added the remaining numbers again to get the sum of 12.