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Question 1044735: There are 200 people interested in playing in a basketball league. The leaders are going to divide all of the people into n teams.
What algebraic expression represents the number of players on each team?
After the teams were created the league merged with another league doubling every team. Write an expression to show this new number of players on each team?
If there were 25 teams, how many players will be on each team after the leagues combined. (use the expression from b)

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
people/team
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After merging:
people/team
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There will be 16 people/team

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