A group of friends Anna (A), Bjorn (B), Candice (C), David (D) and Ellen (E) want to enter a basketball contest that caters for teams of different sizes. A team with n players is called an n-team. A player can be in several different teams, including teams of the same size. There is a restriction however: players in a 2-team cannot play together in any larger team. For example, if friends A,B,C,D form the teams AB, BCD, ACD, then they cannot also form the teams BD or ABC, among others.   a.)List all different 3-teams that the friends could enter. b.)What is the maximum number of teams that the friends can enter if they want to include exactly two 3-teams and at least one 2-team, but no other size teams? c.)What is the maximum number of teams that the friends can enter if they want to include exactly three 3-teams and at least one 2-team but no other size teams?

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A group of friends Anna (A), Bjorn (B), Candice (C), David (D) and Ellen (E) want to enter a basketball contest that caters for teams of different sizes. A team with n players is called an n-team. A player can be in several different teams, including teams of the same size. There is a restriction however: players in a 2-team cannot play together in any larger team. For example, if friends A,B,C,D form the teams AB, BCD, ACD, then they cannot also form the teams BD or ABC, among others.

 

a.)List all different 3-teams that the friends could enter.

b.)What is the maximum number of teams that the friends can enter if they want to include exactly two 3-teams and at least one 2-team, but no other size teams?

c.)What is the maximum number of teams that the friends can enter if they want to include exactly three 3-teams and at least one 2-team but no other size teams?

d.)The five friends want to enter eight teams including at least one 2-team and at least one 3-team and no team of any other size. Find three ways of doing this with a ifferent number of 3-teams in each case.

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