Question

Ryan played in 3 basketball games. He scored 18 points in the first game and 12 points in the second game. If he scored 42 points in all games combined, how many points did he score in the third game?

Answer 1

the correct answer for this very hard equation would happen to be 12 because 18+12 happens to equal 30 and 42-30 just so happens to equal 12

Answer 2

12points

Explanation:

Let x be the number of points in the third game

His total number of points is 42

That is

18+12+x=42

30+x=42

x=42-30

x=12