SOLUTION: My baseball team won 2/9 of its games this season. If we lost 15 more games than we won, how many games did we play this year?

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Question 805157: My baseball team won 2/9 of its games this season. If we lost 15 more games than we won, how many games did we play this year?
Answer by richwmiller(17219) About Me  (Show Source):
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w=2/9(w+l),
l=w+15
l = 21, w = 6