2007 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 20
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Before the district play, the Unicorns had won % of their basketball games. During district play, they won six more games and lost two, to finish the season having won half their games. How many games did the Unicorns play in all?
Solution 1
At the beginning of the problem, the Unicorns had played games and they had won of these games. From the information given in the problem, we can say that Next, the Unicorns win 6 more games and lose 2 more, for a total of games played during district play. We are told that they end the season having won half of their games, or of their games. We can write another equation: This gives us a system of equations: and We first multiply both sides of the first equation by to get Then, we multiply both sides of the second equation by to get Applying the Distributive Property gives yields Now we substitute for to get Solving gives us Since the problem asks for the total number of games, we add on the last 8 games to get the solution .
Solution 2 (Answer Choices)
We can check each answer choice from left to right to see which one is correct. Suppose the Unicorns played games in total. Then, after district play, they would have won games. Now, consider the situation before district play. The Unicorns would have won games out of . Converting to a percentage, %. Thus, the answer is .
Note: If A didn't work, we would have similarly tested the other choices until we found one that did.
Solution 3 (Quick)
We know that . Therefore, the number of games before district play must be a multiple of in order for the number of games won to be an integer. The Unicorns played more games during district play. The only answer choice that is more than a multiple of is .
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