SOLUTION: The sweat hogs lost four times as many games as they won. IF they played 80 games, how many games did they win?

Question 858113: The sweat hogs lost four times as many games as they won. IF they played 80 games, how many games did they win?
Answer by ben720(159) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

If they played 80 games and won x of them, then they lost 4 times that, or 4x.
Assuming no ties, every game was either won or lost. Therefore, the lost games plus the won games is the total number of games. In other words,

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Divide both sides by 5

They won 16 games.
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