SOLUTION: This is my question.... The TM Tennis Team played a total of 162 matches last season. The number of matches the team lost, l, and the number of matches the team won, w, are repres

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Question 491163: This is my question....
The TM Tennis Team played a total of 162 matches last season. The number of matches the team lost, l, and the number of matches the team won, w, are represented by the formula below. What quantity does the dependent variable represent? Formula is... l=162-w

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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The dependent variable is l (lower case L) since the number of losses DEPENDS on the number of wins. Basically, the number of wins (w) dictates the number of losses (l).