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Question
Jennifer's basketball team played 18 games this season, and they won twice as many games as they lost. How many games did they lose?
Responses
A 66
B 99
C 1212
D 1515
E 17
Let's represent the number of games they lost with the variable "x".
Since they won twice as many games as they lost, the number of games they won would be 2x.
The total number of games they played is 18, so we can set up an equation:
x + 2x = 18
Combining like terms, we get:
3x = 18
Divide both sides of the equation by 3:
x = 6
Therefore, they lost 6 games.
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