Question

When Michael Jordan retired from basketball he had the third highest scoring total in NBA history at 32,292 points an average 30 points per game for his whole career. However, Kobe Bryant passed Jordan on the list for third place with 33,643 points before COBE retired. If Michael Jordan started playing again, how many games would he have to play to catch cobia for third place? (You must write an equation and show you were to support your answer)

Answer 1

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Answer:

46 games

Explanation:

Let g represent the number of games played at 30 points per game. Then Jordan's total score would be

32292 +30g

We want to find the value of g that makes this total 33,643:

32292 +30g = 33643

30g = 1351

g ≈ 45.03

Jordan would have to play 46 games to regain 3rd place.

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After 45 games, Jordan's point total would be 33,642, which is 1 point short of Bryant's record.