Question

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?(1 point)
Responses

33 games
33 games

7 games
7 games

27 games
27 games

11 games

Answer 1

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

According to the problem, this season they will play 12 games more than 13 times the number of games they played last season. Mathematically, we can write this as:

21 = 13x + 12

To solve this equation, we first subtract 12 from both sides:

21 - 12 = 13x
9 = 13x

Next, we divide both sides by 13 to isolate x:

9/13 = x

So, Ahmadullah's basketball team played 9/13 of a game last season. However, since we are looking for the number of whole games, we need to round this number to the nearest whole number.

Rounding 9/13 to the nearest whole number gives us 1.

Therefore, Ahmadullah's basketball team played 1 game last season.