SOLUTION: Valley High School's football team played a total of 16 games. They won twice as many games as they lost. If they tied 1 game, how many games did the team win?

Question 484755: Valley High School's football team played a total of 16 games. They won twice as many games as they lost. If they tied 1 game, how many games did the team win?
Answer by Tatiana_Stebko(1539) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let football team lost x games, then they won 2x games, they had games
The equation

lost games
Team won games
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