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Isn't the way you solve this very similar to the way you would solve the problem where 11 teams play one game against each other, to get the total number of games played?

The number of points would have to be:

the 6th city against 5 others, the 5th city against 4 others (since the one against 6th is already counted), the 4th city against 3 others etc

= 5+4+3+2+1 = 15

I am probably not being very clear here, but the first thing that striked me abt this problem was that it was like the other problem.
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Thank you, guys! Your replies are very comprehensive :P :panel
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Least number of combinations will be -
5+4+3+2+1 = 15
Answer is 'A'



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