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A minor league baseball team plays 74 games in a season. If the team won 14 more than twice as many games as they lost, how many wins and losses did the team have?
Ms. Sue
Let x stand for the losses.

x + (2x + 14) = 74

20
Ms. Sue
Right. The team lost 20 games. How many did it win?
54 wins?
Ms. Sue
Right. :-)
If a minor league baseball team plays 81 games in a season. If they won 15 more than twice as many games as they lost, how many wins and losses did the team have.

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