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A bouquet contains 16 flowers, each of them either a rose, tulip, daisy, or daffodil. If no two types of flower appear the same number of times in the bouquet, and there are more tulips than any other type of flower, what is the minimum number of tulips?

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B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
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A bouquet contains 16 flowers, each of them either a rose, tulip, daisy, or daffodil. If no two types of flower appear the same number of times in the bouquet, and there are more tulips than any other type of flower, what is the minimum number of tulips?

A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
E. 8



Test option A. 4 cannot be the answer for tulips. as there will be at least 1 greater than or equal to tulips.
Test option B. 5 cannot be the answer for tulips. 16-5 = 11. There will be at least 1 other type equal or greater than tulip.
Test option C. 6 can be the answer. since 16-6 = 10. For example tulips = 6, rose = 5, daisy = 3 and daffodil = 2. 6+5+3+2 =16

Hence option C = 6 is the answer.


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The only possibility that I can see here is tulip should be 6 and either of the three (rose,daisy,daffodil) should be among (5,4,1). This adds upto 6+5+4+1 = 16. Answer should be option C. 6
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IMO E.

If other number of flowers = 1, 2, 5.
Then, maximum number of tulips in this case = 8.
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We need to find the min number of tulips. I interpret this as the least number of tulips with which we can make a 16-flower bouquet. If we have 5 tulips, we can have a maximum of 14 flowers in the bouquet (e.g. 2 roses, 3 daisies, 4 daffodils), so a 16-flower bouquet is not possible. If we have 6 tulips, a 16-flower bouquet is possible (e.g. 1 rose, 4 daisies, 5 daffodils).

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