Question

A basketball player has already scored 56 points of the game the team record for points in a game is 72 which equation would allow you to find how many more points to play needs to tie the record

Answer 1

think this may be wrong but i think that it is 72-56=
the reason that i think its wrong is that you have nothing after the equils exept for the answer

Answer 2

The equation is:

`x+56=72`

Where x is the amount of points needed to tie the record

Explanation:

In order to write the equation, we must have to understand the paragraph to find the known facts, the information that we want to find (unknown data) and the relation between them

Known facts:

• Player scored points: 56
• Team record points: 72

Unknown data:

• How many more points the player needs to tie the record?

This unknown data is named as x (the variable to find)

In order to find the relation between known facts and unknown data, we analyze the paragraph:

According to the text, x is the amount of point that the player have to add to his current score (56) to tie the team record (72).

This analysis can be summarized in this sentence: "x plus 56 points must be equal to 76 points"

Finally the equation is:

`x+56=72`