SOLUTION: during an intramural basketball game team a scored 18 fewer points than team b together both teams scored a total of 150 points how many points did teama score during he game?

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Question 312348: during an intramural basketball game team a scored 18 fewer points than team b together both teams scored a total of 150 points how many points did teama score during he game?
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If the winning team scored 18 fewer points both teams would have scored the same amount and there would have been 18 fewer points scored overall, which is 132 points, so each team would have scored 66 points in that case. So Team A scored 66 points and Team B scored 18 more than that or 84.




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