SOLUTION: A minor league baseball team plays 119 games in a season. if the team won 15 more than three times as many games as they lost how many wins and losses did they have?
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Question 758181: A minor league baseball team plays 119 games in a season. if the team won 15 more than three times as many games as they lost how many wins and losses did they have? Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A minor league baseball team plays 119 games in a season. if the team won 15 more than three times as many games as they lost how many wins and losses did they have?
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Let # of losses be "x":
Then # of wins = 3x+15
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Equation:
x + 3x+15 = 119
4x = 104
x = 26 (# of wins)
3x+15 = 93 (# of losses)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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