A basketball league has 7 teams with an equal number of players on each team. In all, there are 98 players in the league. How many players are there on each team? Write and solve an equation to find the answer. Use x

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to stand for the unknown number of players and use what you know about inverse operations to help you.(1 point)
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Answer 1

Let \( x \) represent the number of players on each team. Since there are 7 teams, the total number of players in the league can be expressed as:

\[ 7x = 98 \]

To solve for \( x \), we need to isolate it. We can do this by dividing both sides of the equation by 7:

\[ x = \frac{98}{7} \]

Calculating the right-hand side gives:

\[ x = 14 \]

Thus, there are \( x = 14 \) players on each team.

Final answer: \[ x = 14 \]