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Tommy practiced basketball for 3 hours every day for an entire week. At the end of the week, he made a total of 570 baskets in the 3 hours. He made 12 more baskets per hour than he did at the beginning of the week. Let [tex]b[/tex] be the number of baskets per hour he made at the beginning of the week.

Write an equation that accurately represents the situation. How many baskets did he make per hour at the beginning of the week?

Answer :

On the first day he did 178 baskets per hour.

How to write an equation that represents the given situation?

We know that at the end of the week, he made a total of 570 baskets in the 3 hours of training.

Then the number of baskets that he did per hour is given by the quotient between the number of baskets and the number of hours:

(570 baskets)/(3 hours) = 190 baskets per hour.

We know that the first day of the week he did 12 baskets less per hour, so we will have:

b = (190 - 12) baskets per hour.

Solving that:

b = 178 baskets per hour.

And on the first day he trained for 3 hours, so taking a product we can get the total:

3h*178 bkts/h = 534 baskets.

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