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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

33 games
33 games

11 games
11 games

7 games
7 games

27 games

1 answer

Let \( x \) be the number of games Ahmadullah's basketball team played last season.

According to the problem, the number of games played this season (21 games) is 12 more than \( \frac{1}{3} \) the number of games played last season. We can set up the equation as follows:

\[ 21 = \frac{1}{3}x + 12 \]

Now, we can solve for \( x \):

  1. Subtract 12 from both sides:

\[ 21 - 12 = \frac{1}{3}x \]

\[ 9 = \frac{1}{3}x \]

  1. Multiply both sides by 3 to eliminate the fraction:

\[ 27 = x \]

So, the team played 27 games last season.

Therefore, the answer is 27 games.