Question

Two minor league baseball players got a total of 360 hits. Washington had 14 more hits than Sanchez. Find the number of hits for each player.

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Washington had enter your response here
hits. Sanchez had enter your response here
hits.

Answer 1

denote the number of hits that sanchez had with since washington had 18 more hits than sanchez we can say that washington had + 18 hits.

since the total number of hits is 308 we can write

+ ( + 18) = 308.

This is an equation for finding .

2 + 18 = 308

2 = 290

= 145.

so sanchez had 145 hits.

to find the number of hits by washington add 18:

+ 18 = 145 + 18 = 163.

Answer: sanchez had 145 hits and washington had 163 hits.

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