In the first innings of a baseball game the home team scored some runs. In the rest of the game, they scored 5 runs more than the number of runs scored in the first three innings. If the home team scored 9 runs in all, how many runs did they score during the first three innings? How many runs did they score in the remainder of the game? Let x=the runs scored in the first three innings

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Jude Barber

13 February, 12:23

In the first innings of a baseball game the home team scored some runs. In the rest of the game, they scored 5 runs more than the number of runs scored in the first three innings. If the home team scored 9 runs in all, how many runs did they score during the first three innings? How many runs did they score in the remainder of the game? Let x=the runs scored in the first three innings

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Myla Cherry · Answer 1

Answer:x=2

Brenton Cantu · Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

In the first 3 innings they scored some runs, so we will call that number of runs x.

In the rest of the game they scored 5 more than they did in the first 3 innings, so they scored x + 5 in the rest of the game.

The total number of runs in the game is 9, so

x + x + 5 = 9 and

2x + 5 = 9 and

2x = 4 so

x = 2

This is the number of runs they scored in the first 3 innings. This means that they scored 7 in the rest of the game.