Solve the following real-world problem: Ahmadullah's basketball team will play 21 games this season. That is 12 more games than

Question

1/3 the number of games they played last season. How many games did they play last season?(1 point)

Answer 1

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

According to the information given, this season they will play 12 more games than 1/3 of the number of games they played last season.

1/3 of x is (1/3)*x = x/3

So, this season they will play x/3 + 12 games.

We also know that this number of games is equal to 21:

x/3 + 12 = 21

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

x/3 = 21 - 12
x/3 = 9

Finally, to isolate x, we multiply both sides by 3:

3 * (x/3) = 3 * 9

This simplifies to:

x = 27

So, they played 27 games last season.