Question

his season, Lisa's lacrosse team has won $\frac 23$ of their home games (games played at Lisa's school), but just $\frac 25$ of their away games (games played at other schools). In total, Lisa's team has won $26$ games out of $49$ games they have played. How many home games has Lisa's team played?

Answer 1

24 home games were played

Solution:

Let "h" be the number of home games

Let "a" be the number of away games

The total number of games is 49

Therefore,

h + a = 49 ---------- eqn 1

They won 2/3 of the home games and 2/5 of the away games

There were 26 games won

Thus we get,

$\frac{2}{3}h + \frac{2}{5}a = 26\\\\10h + 6a = 26 \times 15\\\\10h + 6a = 390$

10h + 6a = 390 --------- eqn 2

Multiply eqn 1 by 6

6h + 6a = 294 ----------- eqn 3

Subtract eqn 3 from eqn 2

10h + 6a = 390

6h + 6a = 294

( - ) ------------------

4h = 96

h = 24

Thus 24 home games were played