Answer:
Tony make 4 half-court shots and misses 16 half-court shots.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given:
Points earned for every successful, half-court shots =
Points deducted for missing the shots = or
Total number of shots in the game =
Final points earned by Tony =
According to the question:
Let the number of successful half-court shot be
And the number of shots missed be
So,
In terms of points we can re-write it as:
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Tony make 'x' shots that is 4 and the number of shot he missed is (20-x) =(20-4)=16