SOLUTION: At the end of the 2000 baseball season, the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds had won a total of 31 World Series. The Yankees had won 5.2 times as many World Series as the

Question 181372: At the end of the 2000 baseball season, the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds had won a total of 31 World Series. The Yankees had won 5.2 times as many World Series as the Reds. How many World Series did each team win?
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let the number of world series wins by New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds be N and C respectively
:
N+C=31........eq 1
N=5.2C......eq 2
:
rewrite eq 1 to N=31-C and plug it into eq 2
:

:
series won by the Reds
:
series won by the Yankees
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