A baseball team has home games on Wednesday and Sunday. The two games together earn $4282 for the team. Wednesday game generates $1018 less than Sunday's game. How much money was taken at each game?
1 Answer
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
First:
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Let's call the money from Wednesday's game:
#w# -
Let's call the money from Sunday's game:
#s#
We know from the problem:
We also know:
Step 1) Substitute
Step 2) Substitute
The Solution Is:
$1,632 was taken at Wednesday's game
$2,650 was taken at Sunday's game