Solve the following real-world problem: Ahmadullah's basketball team will play 21 games this season. That is 12 more games than 1/3

Question

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

Answer 1

Let the number of games they played last season be x.

The number of games they will play this season is 12 more than 1/3 of the number of games they played last season.

So we can write the equation:

21 = (1/3)x + 12

Subtract 12 from both sides:

9 = (1/3)x

Multiply both sides by 3:

27 = x

Therefore, they played 27 games last season.