document.write( "Question 188321: Please Help. At the end of the 2001 football season , the Cowboys and Broncos had won a total of 7 Super Bowls. The Cowboys had won 2.5 times as many Super Bowls as the Broncos. How many Super Bowls had the Cowboys won? \n" ); document.write( "
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Games won by Broncos: x\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Solve for x, then subtract that value from 7.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You could actually go at this directly and save the subtraction step at the end if you said:\r
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