Question

During a baseball season, Team A scores 9 runs for every 7 runs that Team B scores. The total number of runs scored by both teams is 1440. How many runs does each team score?
(please try and explain how to do it because I'm not smart enough to immediately understand lol)

Answer 1

Answer:

Each team ran (scored) 90 runs.

Step-by-step explanation:

Don't really know how to explain it but I'll show what I did.

First I understood that for every 9 runs team A runs, team B runs 7.

This means that if we multiply 9 by a number, we have to multiply 7 by the same number.

Now that we understand this, we need to figure out a number that when multiplied with 7 and 9 then added together equals 1440.

I'm pretty sure there was an easier way to do this but I did it the way I know will for sure give me the right answer and that's estimating that mystery number until you get it. Sorry my explanation wasn't the best.

Work:

9 x 90 = 810

7 x 90 = 630

810 + 630 = 1440

Answer 2

810, based on the given conditions, formulate 1440 x 9 ÷ (9 + 7)

Calculate 1440 x 9=12960 then Calculate 9+7 =16 12960 over 16 = 810