A basketball team composed of 12 players scored 100 points in a particular contest. If none of the individual players scored fewer than 7 points, what is the greatest number of points E that an individual player might have scored? Choose the correct choice from the following answers.
A) 7	B) 13	C) 16	D) 21	E) 23

Rationale: "general rule for such kind of problems : to maximize one quantity , minimize the others ; to minimize one quantity , maximize the others . thus to maximize the number of points of one particular player minimize the number of points of all other 11 players . minimum number of points for a player is 7 , so the minimum number of points of 11 players is 7 * 11 = 77 . therefore , the maximum number of points e for 12 th player is 100 - 77 = 23 . answer : e ."
Answer: E