document.write( "Question 1196620: I don't really understand how to do this problem and would appreciate to know the steps. \"In the previous baseball season, team A won the most games of any major league team. Team A won 36 less than twice as many games as they lost. They played 162
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Just ONE (1) variable is needed to solve this!\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let number of losses be L\r\n" );
document.write( "Then number of wins = 2L - 36\r\n" );
document.write( "With number of games played being 162, we get: L + 2L - 36 = 162\r\n" );
document.write( "                                                        3L = 162 + 36\r\n" );
document.write( "                                                        3L = 198\r\n" );
document.write( "                               Number of losses, or \r\n" );
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document.write( "                               Number of wins: \r\n" );
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document.write( "                               It's as SIMPLE as that!

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