SOLUTION: 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

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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?
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Games won by Broncos: x

Games won by Cowboys: 2.5x

Games won by both:



Solve for x, then subtract that value from 7.

You could actually go at this directly and save the subtraction step at the end if you said:

Games won by Cowboys: x

Games won by Broncos:

Games won by both:



But that is a messier equation to solve.

John