Problema Solution

a bean bag game board has hole marked 2,4,6,8 and 10 points. you throw 3 bean bags through the holes. in how many ways can you score 20 points

Answer provided by our tutors

we assume that all bags will fall through a hole, therefore misses are not counted as zero


20 points can be obtained on three throws:

A) 10, 8 and 2

B) 10, 6 and 4

C) 8, 8, and 4

D) 8, 6 and 6


there would be four possible combinations