Had Rui been there, he would have made deeper insights into the second round of the entrance exam. He would have immediately mentally plotted distribution graphs with classes of badge number, with a certain range, and the proportion of badges that fell within each of those classes, based on his observations, allowing him to figure out exactly how many applicants would need to be disqualified for the winners to win.
And he would have more or less correctly come to the conclusion that only twenty percent of the applicants could possibly pass the second round of the entrance exam. That was why the number 1500 was chosen when the average was 1026.
Max and Mana immediately had each other's back as the applicants around them increasingly began getting broiled in more intense conflict.
They were cognizant of the fact that their badge numbers were decisively below the required net number to pass the second round.
"What should we do?" Max asked urgently.
