Question

The Vols scored 14 points less than 3 times the Titans score this weekend. If the sum of their points was 70, find how many each team scored.

Answer 1

We can define some notation at first for this problem. Let V the score for The Vols and T for the Titans last weekend. From the information given we have the following conditions:

`V+T=70\text{ (1)}`
`V=3T-14\text{ (2)}`

Now if we replace euqation (2) into (1) we have:

`3T-14+T=70`

And if we solve for T we got:

`4T=84`
`T=(84)/(4)=21`
`V=(3\cdot21)-14=49`