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 Question from Kennedy, a parent: Hello, hope it finds you well. Am not that good with numbers, can you please help me get all the possible outcomes of 13 games, with a home win, draw or an away win as three possible results for each of the 13 games. Thanks in advance

Hi Kennedy,

I am going to indicate the 3 possibilities as hw, home win, aw, away win and d, draw. Thus for the first game there are 3 possible outcomes, hw, aw or d.

For each of these possibilities there are 3 possibilities for game 2, and thus there are $3 \times 3 = 3^2$ possibilities for the first two games. You can list them

hw, hw
hw, aw
hw, d
aw ,hw
aw, aw
aw, d
d, hw
d, aw
d, d.

For each of the nine possibilities for the first two games there are 3 possibilities for game 3. Hence there are $3 \times 3 \times 3 = 3^3$ possibilities for the first 3 games. Again you can list them if you want

hw, hw, hw
hw, hw, aw
hw, hw, d
hw, aw, hw
and so on.

Do you see now the number of possibilities for 13 games?

Penny

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