SOLUTION: A minor league baseball team plays 117 games. If the team won 17 more than 3 times as many games as they lost, how many WINS and losses did they have? Just formula please

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Question 1109227: A minor league baseball team plays 117 games. If the team won 17 more than 3 times as many games as they lost, how many WINS and losses did they have? Just formula please
Answer by greenestamps(13367) About Me  (Show Source):
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Writing the formula is easy, once you have made a clear definition of the variable you are going to use.

Let x be the number of games the team lost.

Then what is the expression for the number of games they won (17 more than 3 times the number they lost)?

Then what is the equation (not formula) that says the total number of games (won plus lost) is 117?