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Why did you insert the word "likely" into the Putnam page: "a school whose team members placed 1st, 2nd and 20th would likely place lower than a school whose team members placed 6th, 7th and 8th"?
 
Why did you insert the word "likely" into the Putnam page: "a school whose team members placed 1st, 2nd and 20th would likely place lower than a school whose team members placed 6th, 7th and 8th"?
 
--[[User:JBL|JBL]] 11:06, 14 July 2006 (EDT)
 
--[[User:JBL|JBL]] 11:06, 14 July 2006 (EDT)
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Because it is likely, but not guaranteed.  They sum the scores, not the ranks, right?  --13:12, 14 July 2006 (EDT)

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Why did you insert the word "likely" into the Putnam page: "a school whose team members placed 1st, 2nd and 20th would likely place lower than a school whose team members placed 6th, 7th and 8th"? --JBL 11:06, 14 July 2006 (EDT)

Because it is likely, but not guaranteed. They sum the scores, not the ranks, right? --13:12, 14 July 2006 (EDT)