Problema Solution
A baseball team played 140 regular season games. The ratio of the number of games they won to the nu,her of games they lost was 5/2. How many games did they win? How many games did they lose?
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Let
x = the number of games won
y = the number of games lost
A baseball team played 140 regular season games:
x + y = 140
The ratio of wins to lost was 5/2 means:
x : y = 5 : 2 cross-multiply
5y = 2x
We have the following system of equations:
x + y = 140
5y = 2x
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x = 100 games won
y = 40 games lost
The team won 100 games and lost 40 games.