Question

PLEASE HELP!! A baseball league awards 2 points for a win and one point for a tie. One team has five more wins than ties and has earned 19 points. How many games has the team won?

Answer 1

Answer: The team had won 8 games

Step-by-step explanation:

Let w be won games and

t be tied games

2w +1t = 19

w = t +5

Substituting in equation 1

2 (t+5) +t = 19

2t+10+t = 19

3t = 19-10

t= 9/3 = 3

Subsituting in equation 2

w = t+5

w = 3+5 = 8