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Le Monde puzzle [#952]

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By xi’an

A quite simple Le Monde mathematical puzzle again with Alice and Bob:

In a multiple choice questionnaire with 50 questions, Alice gets a score s such that Bob can guess how many correct (+5 points), incorrect (-1 point) and missing (0 point) Alice got when adding that Alice could not have gotten s-2 or s+2. What is Alice’s score?

A first point is that the overall score is s=5c-i with c+i≤50. Without further information, the possible results are all integers 0≤c≤50 such that c≥s/5 and 0≤i=s-5c≤50. Possible scores range from -50 to 250, but a quick R check shows that ten values are impossible

vales=rep(0,le=50+1+250)
for (c in 0:50){
for (i in 0:(50-c))vales[5*c-i+50+1]=1}

which produces

> (1:length(vales))[vales==0]-50-1
[1] 231 236 237 241 242 243 246 247 248 249

Thus looking at the differences, there is only one case for which s-2 and s+2 are impossible values, namely s=239. This means c=48, i=1 since c=49 leads to an impossible i.

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