Question

to win a basketball game, one team scored 151 points. They made a total of 62 two-pointers and three pointers how many of the baskets were worth 2 points, and how many were 3 pointers.

Answer 1

That's a huge number of points.

First: Calculate the value of 62 two pointers

62 * 2 = 124

Second: find the number of points that were due to 3 pointers.

151 - 124 = 27

Third: Divide by 3 to find the number of 3 pointers.

27÷3 = 9

Answer: There were 9 three pointers.