SOLUTION: The soccer team won 3 times as many games as they lost. They played 28 games in all. How many games did they lose?
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Question 167465: The soccer team won 3 times as many games as they lost. They played 28 games in all. How many games did they lose?
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
lets call games won w and games lost l
w+l=28--eq 1
w=3l----eq 2
take w's value from eq 2 and substitute it into eq 1
3l+l=28--->4l=28--->games lost
games won
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