Annette’s soccer team will play 15 games this season. That is 7 games fewer than 2 times the number of games they played last season. How many games did they play last season? Represent this problem with an equation in the form px+q=r

Question

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Responses

2x−7=15
2 x minus 7 equals 15

2x+7=15
2 x plus 7 equals 15

7−2x=15
7 minus 2 x equals 15

15−7=2x

Answer 1

To represent the problem with an equation in the form \(px + q = r\), let's first analyze the information given:

1. Annette’s soccer team will play 15 games this season.
2. This number (15) is 7 games fewer than 2 times the number of games they played last season.

Let \(x\) represent the number of games they played last season. Then, according to the information:

• 2 times the number of games they played last season is \(2x\).
• Since 15 is 7 games fewer than that, we can write the equation as:

\[ 2x - 7 = 15 \]

So the correct equation is:

2x - 7 = 15.