SOLUTION: Pleasae help me solve this word problem....Two minor league baseball players got a total of 322 hits. Washington had 8 more hits than Sanchez. find the number of hits for each play
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Question 426958: Pleasae help me solve this word problem....Two minor league baseball players got a total of 322 hits. Washington had 8 more hits than Sanchez. find the number of hits for each player.
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
w = number of hits washington had.
h = number of hits sanchez had.
washington had 8 more hits than sanchez.
w = h + 8
they both got a total of 322 hits.
w + h = 322
substitute h + 8 for w to get:
(h + 8) + h = 322
simplify to get:
2h + 8 = 322
subtract 8 from both sides of the equation to get 2h = 314.
divide by 2 to get h = 157.
add 8 to get w = 165.
you have:
h = 157
w = 165.
w + h = 157 + 165 = 322 (this is good).
w = h + 8 = 157 + 8 = 165 (this is also good).
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