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For the 2009 regular season, the MLB batting leaders in number of hits were Ichiro Suzuki and Derek Jeter. These two players had a total of 437 hits. Suzuki had 13 more hits than Jeter. How many hits did each player have?

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Let's call the number of hits that Derek Jeter had "x". We are told that Suzuki had 13 more hits than Jeter, so Suzuki had x + 13 hits. We are also told that the total number of hits for both players was 437, so x + (x + 13) = 437. We can simplify this equation to 2x + 13 = 437. Subtracting 13 from both sides, we get 2x = 424. Dividing both sides by 2, we find that x = 212. This means that Derek Jeter had 212 hits. Since Suzuki had 13 more hits than Jeter, he had 212 + 13 = 225 hits. Therefore, Ichiro Suzuki had 225 hits and Derek Jeter had 212 hits.
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