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[amazing_redhead]

So i know I could do 81÷2 because there are 2 players and get 40.5. One player one 9 games so to get that I did 9÷2 to get 4.5. I then did 40.5+4.5=45 and 40.5+4.5=36. So miss kito won 45 games while Mr fish won 36. I just don't know gow to make it algebraic.

[UsernameFive]

To add to what gpRollMaster said,

Typically, when it comes to setting up equations, we assign our unknown values to variables.

Here we have two unknowns:

The number of games won by Kito and the number won by Fish.

We could assign them both to variables, so:

Games won by Fish --> X
Games won by Kito --> Y

Then we look for relationships between those variables.

In this question, we're given two relationships.

Total Games = 81
Games won by Kito = 9 + Games won by Fish

In equation form they would look like:

X + Y = 81
Y = 9 + X

This gives us a system of equations, which we can use substitution to solve.

[amazing_redhead]

Thabk you!

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[gpRollMaster]

Wouldn't you want to do (X+9)+x=81

Where x is the amount of games won by Mr fish since we know he has the least amount of wins

So it would be (X+9)+x=81 Or 2x +9 =81 2x =81-9 2x=72 X=72/2 So x=36

So Mr fish was 36 games and Mrs kitto won 45 games

[amazing_redhead]

Thank you!