Question

During the 1998-1999 Little League season, the Tigers played 47 games. They won 11 more games than they lost. How many games did they win that season?

Answer 1

`29` times

Explanation:

We'll turn this word problem into some equations so that we can solve it easier.

There were two types of games the Tigers played: winning games and losing games. I'm going to give "wins" the variable `w` and "losses" the variable `l`.

Since they played a total of `47` games, of which they lost some and won others, we can make this equation:

`w + l = 47`

It says that they "won 11 more games than they lost" or:

`l = w - 11` (their losses where 11 less than their wins)

We can substitute that second equation into the first one:

`w + l = 47`

`w + (w - 11) = 47`

`w + w - 11 = 47`

`2w - 11 = 47`

`2w = 58`

`w = 29`

So the Tigers won `29` times.