January 2024
Problem of the Month

Golf with Tiger Woods
by Kipp Johnson of Valley Catholic School, Beaverton, Oregon



Last weekend I played eighteen holes of golf with Tiger Woods.

We bet $1 on the first hole, and doubled the bet on each succeeding hole.

He got lucky and beat me on the first seventeen holes, but I won the last hole.

(There were no ties on any hole.).

How much did I win or lose?



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