SOLUTION: Can you please provide me with a formula that I can use to solve this, and similar, problems? Thanks sooo much! The high school baseball team played 6 fewer games this year th

Question 457864: Can you please provide me with a formula that I can use to solve this, and similar, problems? Thanks sooo much!

The high school baseball team played 6 fewer games this year than last year but won 60% of the games played, compared with 50% of its games last year. The team won one more game this year than last year. How many games did the team play each year?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of games played this year
given:
Last year team played this many games:

Games won this year:

Games won last year:

and

the team played 40 games this year and 46 last year
check answer:
This year they won 60% of games played

They won 50% of games played last year:

They won one more game this year than last year:

OK

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