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The football team won 3 more games than it lost. The team played 11 games. How many games did they win?

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Answer:

The ratio of wins to losses is 3 to 1, out of 32 total games. 3:1 has a total of 4 parts (3+1).

Total games divided by total parts is 32/4 = 8.

Now multiplying number of parts to divisor gives us 3x8 : 1x8 or 24:8. Therefore they won 24 games, lost 8.

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