SOLUTION: if a basketball team played 64 games and won 34 more games than loss answer is 15 and 49 how do we get this

Question 316935: if a basketball team played 64 games and won 34 more games than loss answer is 15 and 49 how do we get this

Found 2 solutions by tinbar, Fombitz:
Answer by tinbar(133) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
loss+win = 64
win = 34+loss
plug in the second statement into the first
loss+(34+loss) = 64
therefore loss = (64-34)/2 = 15
and from either statement 1 or 2 we can get the wins
win = 34+loss = 34+15 = 49
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let W be the wins, L be the losses.
1.
2.
Substitute eq. 2 into eq. 1,

Then from eq. 2,

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