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

Answer 1

Let's assume the number of games Ahmadullah's basketball team played last season as 'x'.

According to the problem, this season they will play 12 more games than 1/3 of the number of games they played last season. Therefore, this season they will play x/3 + 12 games.

Since it is mentioned that they will play 21 games this season, we can set up the equation:

x/3 + 12 = 21

To solve for x, we can first subtract 12 from both sides:

x/3 = 21 - 12

Simplifying, we have:

x/3 = 9

To get rid of the fraction, we can multiply both sides by 3:

x = 9 * 3

x = 27

Therefore, Ahmadullah's basketball team played 27 games last season.