Question

There are n employees on The Game Shops sales team. Last month, they sold a total of 504 games. One of the sales team members, Chris, sold 17 fewer games than what the team averaged per employee. How many games did Chris sell? (Write your answer as an expression)

Answer 1

Given:

• Total games sold last month = 504
• Total employees = n

Let's dissect the given phrase:

"Chris sold 17 fewer games than what the team averaged per employee"

Average games sold per employee is the total games sold divided by the total number of employees. We have:

"Average games sold" =
`(504)/(n)`

Chris sold 17 fewer than the "average games sold", so we can subtract 17 from that expression. We get:

Chris sold (number of games) =
`(504)/(n) - 17`

ANSWER: Number of games Chris sold (as an expression) =
`(504)/(n) - 17`