Question

In the inter-sports meet of local colleges, the games to be played are TT, hockey, badminton, tennis and basketball. Three colleges of Meerut sent the following number of players.

Meerut College (MC)—35 players: 5 (TT), 11 (hockey), 5 (badminton), 6 (tennis) and 8 (basketball).

Nanak Chand College (NAS)—22 players: 3 (TT), 13 (hockey), 2 (badminton), 4 (tennis) and none for basketball.

Dev Nagri College (DN)—31 players: 2 (TT), 15 (hockey), 3 (badminton), 5 (tennis) and 6 (basketball).

Put this information in a matrix form.

Answer 1

The above information can be put in a tabular form as follows.

The number 4 represents the number of players the NAS College has sent for playing tennis. The number 15 represents the number of players the DN College has sent for playing hockey. Similarly, the number 8 represents the number of players that the Meerut College has sent for playing basketball. The above can be put in a rectangular array form as follows:

This is a 3 × 5 matrix, where 3 represents the number of colleges (number of rows) participating and 5 represents the number of games (number of columns) being played in the meet.