The Game of Pool Uses 15 Balls Numbered from 1

question 127

Multiple Choice

The game of pool uses 15 balls numbered from 1 to 15 (see the figure below) . In the game of rotation, a player attempts to "sink" a ball in a pocket of the table and receives the number of points on the ball. Suppose we consider a game of "super pool", which has 19 consecutively numbered balls on the table. How many points would a player receive to "run the table"? ​ ​

• A) 19
• B) 420
• C) 210
• D) 190
• E) 171

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