Question

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Sam and Alex play Tennis. On the weekend Sam played 8 more games than Alex did, and together they played 24 games. How many games did Alex play? How many games did Sam play? Let a represent the number of games Alex played. Write and solve an equation to determine the number of games Alex and Sam played​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Let The number of games played by Sam be 'b' and the number of games played by Alex be 'a'

Acoording to question

b=a+8  

b-a=8   . . . (1)

And

b + a=24  . . . .(2)

(2)-(1)

b+ a-b +a=16

2a=16

a=8  . . . . put this in (1)

we get b=16

So sam played 8 games while alex played 16 games