Problema Solution

two minor league baseball players got a total of 216 hits. Washington had 2 more hits than Sanchez. Find the number of hits for each player.

Answer provided by our tutors

let number of hit by washington is w and by sanchez is s

thus. w+s=216

w=s+2

=> 2s= 214

=> s= 107

and w=109

thus, hit are 107,109