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Number of basketball players that have signed up for a new league. What is a possible scenario that would be modeled by this equation? Consider how many teams in the league and the number of players on each team this equation could describe

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The equation could model a scenario determining the number of players on each team in a league of five teams, if 2 players have to be taken out of the possible players to be referees and to keep score. There will be 11 players on each team.

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Complete question :

consider the equation x/5-2=11. if x represents the number of basketball players that have signed up for a new league, what is a possible scenario that would be modeled by this equation?

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Explanation:

The Number of players that signed up for a new league can be modeled using the following information :

The number of players per team

The number of teams in the league

For the equation given :

x/5 - 2=11

x could represent the total number of players, with the number of teams in the league being 5 ;

if 2 players were to leave any of the teams ; we have 11 players in that team.

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