2007 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 20
Problem
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
At the beginning of the problem, the Unicorns had played games and they had won
of these games. So we can say that
Then, 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
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
.
44==Solution 2(under pressure)==
Simplifying 45% to , we see that the numbers of games are a multiple of 20. After that the Unicorns played 8 more games to the total number of games is in the form of 20x+8 where x is any positive integer. The only answer choice is 48, which is 20(2)+8.
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Solution 3(no decimals)
First we 45% to . After he won 6 more games and lost 2 more games the number of games he won is
, and the total number of games is
. Turning it into a fraction we get
, so solving for
we get
Plugging in 2 for
we get
.
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