SOLUTION: A baseball team played 109 games. It lost 5 more games then it won. How many games did the team win? How do you set up an eqaution for this?

Question 669261: A baseball team played 109 games. It lost 5 more games then it won. How many games did the team win?
How do you set up an eqaution for this?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let be the number of the games a baseball team won and be the number of the games a baseball team lost
if a baseball team lost more games then it won, then we have
.........eq. 1

if a baseball team played games, then we have ....eq.2
solve the system:
.........eq. 1
....eq.2
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.........eq. 1...substitute in eq. 2

....eq.2...solve for

now go back in eq. 1 and calculate
.........eq. 1

so, a baseball team won games and lost games

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