document.write( "Question 1202305: Our baseball team lost 15 games this season. That was 5/8 of all they played. How many games did they played this season? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "Our baseball team lost 15 games this season. That was 5/8 of all they played.
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document.write( "Let x be the unknown value under the problem's question.\r\n" );
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document.write( "From this problem, we have this equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "     = 15.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Multiply both sides by   and get the answer  x =  = 3*8 = 24.\r\n" );
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