Do you know the answer?

Do you know the answer?

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14?

19. Assuming they each vote for themselves, then the least they need would be 19, as the most either of the other two could have at that point is 18.

13

other guy can get 25 votes.

26?

The winner has to have at least 20 votes for a certain victory. Since each of the candidates dislikes the other two, each will likely vote for themselves. Forty votes minus those three votes leaves 37 votes. The winner will need over half the votes--in this case, a minimum of 19 additional votes. Add the winning candidate's personal vote to that, and you get 20 votes. Even if another candidate gathered all the remaining 18 votes, it wouldn't be enough to overcome the candidate with 20 votes.

15 is the answer
43/3
the 3 people running for mayor get to vote too

This guy spoilered his answer, so I assume he is right.

19

He is.

second Layton is the most faggot

21.
Who's to say one of the candidates won't vote for one of his opponents? It'd be stupid, but it could happen.

22 i guess, nothing says each candidate will vote for themselves so assuming that is incorrect

He is, as I forgot to add the candidate's vote back in.

>43/3
Not if they get divided between the other two guys giving them 13 votes each

This is some fucking bullshit yet again.
Out of 40 voters they need 21 to win for sure, that is the correct answer.
If you go down that line, maybe 2 of the voters die so theres only 35 voters, not counting the candidates. Who says that wont happen.

>40 people, including the candidate.

Shouldn't that be 20, then, to include their own votes?

>with certainty
22. Assuming the worst case scenario that a candidate would actually give their own vote for another for whatever reason, one needs 22 votes since the total number of votes is 43.

Yes, I forgot.

>Including these three candidates,

Oh sheeeit. Answer is 21 then, unless Layton pulls out the each candidate vote for themselves bullshit.

It's Layton, so you know it's bullshit. Any baby can tell that the majority of 40 is 21. They go out of their way to mention that the three candidates are part of the 40 and that they are at odds with each other. Hence, the answer is 20.

Honestly, under what logic would each candidate not vote for themselves if they're allowed to? If you think there's a better candidate than yourself, then why run against them?

21, even if one candidate gets 0 you still win.

It's 21. Once a candidate reaches 21 votes there is no way the others can grasp victory.
Which is why you should have the military in your back pocket for a coup.

>if
That's a big if
The question was the fewest to secure a certain victory
You can't count on the votes dividing evenly between all candidates

Based

Yeah, but the opposing candidates could vote for each other and tie things up for 20 votes.

The answer is 21.

One of the only pieces of information given is that the candidates are all at odds with each other. This strongly implies that they will each vote for themself. If that's not the correct interpretation, Nintendo is gay

>secure victory with certainty
>uncertain that the fat guy won't pound the skinny chick to get her to vote for him

It's a fucking layton puzzle, the correct answer is whatever layer of autism the writer was on at the time.

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