In a talent competition, half of the contestants are eliminated in each round. at the end of the nth round, 32 contestants remain. if there were 1,024 contestants at the start of the competition, what is the value of n?
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in geometry, parallel lines are lines in a plane which do not meet; that is, two lines in a plane that do not intersect or touch each other at any point are said to be parallel. by extension, a line and a plane, or two planes, in three-dimensional euclidean space that do not share a point are said to be parallel.