3. There are 16 teams in a basketball league. Eight teams are in the East conference, and the other eight teams are in the West conference. If a team plays each other team from the same conference 4 times and from the difference conference twice, how many games are there in total?
Never sure about these....but....here's my best attempt
Suppose that each team plays every other team in its conference once and every other team in the other conference once
Within one conference......it will be similar to the "handshake" problem
There will be (8*7)/2 = 28 games withiin each conference if each team plays each other once
So....the total number of intra-coference games will be four times this = 4 (28 + 28) = 4(56) = 224 games
If each team plays each team from the other conference once there will be (8)(8) = 64 games
But....we must double this = 128 games
So....the total number of games = 224 + 128 = 352 games