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A twenty-two member panel was constituted to select the best tennis player in the world from five players

- Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and Wawrinka. This selection was done in four rounds, such that in
each round, the player that received the minimum number of votes was eliminated. The player that
received the maximum number of votes in the final round was declared the best tennis player in the
world. All the twenty-two members voted in all the four rounds and in each round, one member can vote
for exactly one player. The following table gives the total number of votes received by each player across
all the rounds:
Further, it is also known that,
i.Murray was the only player who received the same
number of votes in two or more rounds.
ii.all the members who voted for a specific player in a
round voted for the same player in all the subsequent
rounds unless he was eliminated.
iii. there were exactly two rounds in which the number of
votes received by all the players were distinct, and exactly
two rounds in which exactly two players received the same
number of votes, while the others received a distinct
number of votes each.
iv. in none of the rounds did more than one player receive
the least number of votes.
How many votes did Federer receive in the third round?
In which of the following rounds did at least two players receive the same number of votes?
If Federer received more votes than exactly three other players in the first round, which player
was declared the best tennis player in the world?
What is the total number of members in the panel who had to change the player that they voted
for during any of the four rounds of voting?

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