Question 220728
 two baseball players his a total of 252 hits.one has 18 mor hits that the other. find the number of hits for each players
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Let one of the players have "x" hits.
The other has "x+18".
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Equation:
x + x+28 = 252
2x = 224
x = 112 (hits by one of the players)
252-112 = 140 (hits by the other player)
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Cheers,
Stan H.