A baseball team has games on Thursday and Sunday. The two games together earn $3907.50 for the team. Thursday's game generates $12.50 less than Sunday's game. How much money was taken in at each game?

Solution

You would have to write an equation to solve this.

The elements are:

Total: 3907.50

Sunday's game = x

Thursday's game = x - 12.50

The question states that the combination of the Sunday and Thursday game equals the total, which is 3907.50

That would bring us to the equation: x + x - 12.50 = 3907.50

2x = 3920

x = 1960

To find Thursday's game, plug x into the equation. (Thursday's games = x - 12.50)

The answers are:

Sunday's game = 1960

Thursday's games = 1947.50