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kashan123999
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I am having difficulty of making equations from the following statement...
"A baseball team won 54 more games than it lost"??
"A baseball team won 54 more games than it lost"??
chiro said:Hey kashan123999.
Hint: When you come across a mathematical problem, think about what the independent variables.
As an example. if x is the number of games won and y is the number of games lost then you have the relationship
x = y + 54 and
x + y = n where n is the total number of games played.
SteamKing said:Look at it this way:
W = no. of games won
L = no. of games lost
T = total no. of games
In baseball, games are played so that there are no ties in the score.
Obviously, the total number of games = no. of games won by a team plus the number of games lost.
So we have our first equation: T = W + L
Now, the second equation is no. of wins = no. of losses + 54. 'Team won 54 more games than it lost.'
We would write this in equation form: W = L + 54
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