Question 858113: The sweat hogs lost four times as many games as they won. IF they played 80 games, how many games did they win? Answer by ben720(159) (Show Source):
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If they played 80 games and won x of them, then they lost 4 times that, or 4x.
Assuming no ties, every game was either won or lost. Therefore, the lost games plus the won games is the total number of games. In other words,