Week #4 Fall 2001
If you have been hitting all of your threes lately, you
might be able to solve the WSU Math Department's

      STACKHOUSE
  OR  JORDAN?
 

In the first regular season game between the Detroit Pistons and the Washington Wizards, Jerry Stackhouse and Michael Jordan both scored 33 points before fouling out. (The recently activated Dennis Rodman pulled down 33 rebounds.) This had the effect of lowering Stackhouse's scoring average by one point but raising Jordan's scoring average by one point. If before the game Stackhouse had scored twice as many points as Jordan and they had each played in the same number of games, what are their new scoring averages?

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