SOLUTION: a minor league baseball team plays 131 games in a season. if the team won 15 more than three times as many games as they lost, how many wins and losses did the team have

Question 666395: a minor league baseball team plays 131 games in a season. if the team won 15 more than three times as many games as they lost, how many wins and losses did the team have
Answer by ReadingBoosters(3246) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Establish variables
x = wins
y = losses
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x+y = 131
x = 15 + 3y
Substitute x into the first equation
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15 + 3y + y = 131
Combine like terms

4y = 116
Divide both sides by 4

losses
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x = 15 + 3(29) = 15 + 87 = wins
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Check
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