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Become one with your inner athlete to score this brainteaser. Send your answer to editnews@coe.berkeley.edu and include your name, major, and class year. The first person to e-mail the right answer will have his or her name printed in the next issue of Engineering News along with the answer. Twice a semester, one of the biweekly winners will be picked at random to win two movie tickets, courtesy of Engineering Alumni Relations.

At a sports banquet there are 100 famous athletes. Each one is either a football or basketball player. At least one is a football player. Given any two of the athletes, at least one is a basketball player. How many of the athletes are football players, and how many are basketball players?

Send your answer to editnews@coe.berkeley.edu, and include your name, major, and class year.

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