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A netball team won three more than three times the number of games it lost. If the team played 60 games and.............

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A netball team won three more than three times the number of games it lost.
If the team played 60 games and drew in nine of them, how many games did the team lose?

posted Jan 17, 2019 by Rahul Vaidya

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39


If team won x games, then we have:
x+(3x+3)=60-9
4x=48
x=12- won, 39- lost

answer Jan 17, 2019 by Hanifa Mammadov



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