Question

4. Ariel loves to go to baseball games. This season she has already attended 23 New York Ducks games. If

Ariel attended nine more weekend games than weekday games, how many weekday games did she attend.

Answer 1

Answer: She attended to 7 weekday games.

Explanation:

Let's denote our variables as:

Wd = number of weekday games that she attended.

We = number of weekend games that she attended.

We know that in total, she attended to 23 games, so we have:

Wd + We = 23.

"If Ariel attended nine more weekend games than weekday games" can be written as:

We = Wd + 9.

Then we have the system of equations:

Wd + We = 23.

We = Wd + 9.

The first step would be to replace the second equation into the first one, as:

Wd + We = 23.

Wd + (Wd + 9) = 23

Now we can solve this for Wd.

2*Wd + 9 = 23

2*Wd = 23 - 9 = 14

Wd = 14/2 = 7

She attended to 7 weekday games.

And:

We + 7 = 23

We = 23 - 7 = 16

She attended at 16 weekend games.