SOLUTION: At the end of the 2000 baseball season, the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds had won a total of 31 World Series. The Yankees had won 5.2 times as many World Series as the

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Question 181372: At the end of the 2000 baseball season, the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds had won a total of 31 World Series. The Yankees had won 5.2 times as many World Series as the Reds. How many World Series did each team win?
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let the number of world series wins by New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds be N and C respectively
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N+C=31........eq 1
N=5.2C......eq 2
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rewrite eq 1 to N=31-C and plug it into eq 2
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31-C=5.2C
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31=6.2C
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highlight%28C=5%29 series won by the Reds
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highlight%28N=31-C=31-5=26%29series won by the Yankees