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9 Your basketball team scored 4 fewer than twice as many points, x x , as the other team. A. Write an expression for the number of points your team scored. Expression: 2x−4 b. The other team scored 24 points. How many points did your team score?

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Answer: Our team scored 44 points .

Explanation:

Let the number of points scored by other team be x

Since we have given that

Our basketball team scored 4 fewer than twice as many points as the other team,

So, Number of points scored by our team is given by

[tex]2x-4[/tex]

Now, we have given that the other team scored 24 points,

So, Number of points our team scored is given by

[tex]2(24)-4=48-4=44[/tex]

So, our team scored 44 points .

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