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Points for a win

In a tournament in which each team played each of the other teams four times, with 2 points awarded for each win and 1 point to each team for a draw, the teams finished in the order Albion, Borough, City, Rangers, United, each team having a different number of points.

If 3 points had been awarded for each win and 1 point to each team for a draw, once again each team would have had a different number of points; but City would have won the tournament and none of the teams would have finished in…

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