Question

Partway through the season, a basketball coach promises his team that he will take them to a water park if they reach 1,000 points as a team by the end of the season. So far, they have scored 424 points. There are 9 games left in the season. Fill in the values for a, b, and c to create an equation that can be used to find the average number of points, x, the team needs to score in each of the remaining games to meet their goal.

Answer 1

From the given above, the point that still needs to be incurred by the group is calculated by subtracting 424 points from 1000. This as shown below,

       n = 1000 - 424  = 576

If we are to determine the number of points each game, we divide 576 by 9. That is,
         x = 576 / 9 = 64

ANSWER: 64 points/ game