Solve the following real-world problem: Ahmadullah's basketball team will play 21 games this season. That is 12 more games than 1/3 the number of games they played last season. How many games did they play last season?(1 point) Responses 27 games 27 games 33 games 33 games 7 games 7 games 11 games

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Let's represent the number of games they played last season as "x".

According to the problem, Ahmadullah's team will play 12 more games than 1/3 of the number of games they played last season, which can be written as: 1/3*x + 12.

We also know that they will play a total of 21 games this season.

To find the value of "x", we can set up the equation: 1/3*x + 12 = 21.

Now let's solve for "x":

1/3*x = 21 - 12,
1/3*x = 9,
x = 9 * 3,
x = 27.

Therefore, they played 27 games last season.