Solve the following real-world problem: Ahmadullah's basketball team will play 21 games this season. That is 12 more games than 1 over 3 the number of games they played last season. How many games did they play last season?

Question

27 games

33 games

7 games

11 games

Answer 1

Let's assign a variable to represent the number of games they played last season.

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

According to the problem, Ahmadullah's basketball team will play 21 games this season, which is 12 more games than 1 over 3 the number of games they played last season.

This can be represented as:

21 = (1/3)x + 12

To solve for x, we can subtract 12 from both sides of the equation:

21 - 12 = (1/3)x

9 = (1/3)x

To isolate x, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 3:

3 * 9 = 3 * (1/3)x

27 = x

Therefore, they played 27 games last season.