The number of infielders on a baseball team is one less than three times the number of pitchers. If there are eleven infielders, how many pitchers are there?

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Dylan D.
Apr 27, 2017

4 pitchers

Explanation:

let p represent the number of pitchers.

there are 11 infielders.

# 11 = 3p-1#
(11 is 1 less than 3 times the number of pitchers)

#12=3p#, Adding 1 to both sides

#p=4#, Divinding both sides by 3

Therefore, there are 4 pitchers

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