Solve the following real-world problem: Ahmadullah’s basketball team will play 21 games this season. That is 12 games more than 13 the number of games they played last season. How many games did they play last season?

Answer 1

Let's call the number of games Ahmadullah's basketball team played last season "x".

According to the problem, the number of games they are set to play this season, which is 21, is 12 more than 1/3 the number of games played last season.

Mathematically, you would express this as:

21 = (1/3)x + 12

Now, let's solve for x:

To get rid of the fraction, you can multiply both sides of the equation by 3 to eliminate the denominator:

3 * 21 = 3 * ((1/3)x + 12)

63 = x + 36

Now, subtract 36 from both sides of the equation to solve for x:

63 - 36 = x

x = 27

Therefore, Ahmadullah's basketball team played 27 games last season.