Four members of the basketball team stand in a circle and practice passsing the ball. Each player passes the ball to each other players. How many passes take place?

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anonymous · Answer

Hey can  you help I really don't understand this?

terenzreignz · Answer

What do we know about it?  When a player passes to another, is it passed back to him/her?

anonymous · Answer

No everybpdy passes it to everbody

terenzreignz · Answer

But there are only four players?

anonymous · Answer

i no

terenzreignz · Answer

Then, if each player passes once to the others, then there should be 4 players times the pass to three other players, making 12 passes all in all?

anonymous · Answer

ohhh|dw:1345042003101:dw| Yeah it's 12