Today the Center City baseball team scored 5 runs. The day before yesterday they scored w runs. How many runs did they score in these two days?
5 + w =
2 RIGHT?
Since we don't know how many runs they scored the day before yesterday, we can't tell how many runs they scored in two days.
We don't know what 5 + w equals.
To find the total number of runs scored in the past two days, we need to add the runs scored today and the runs scored the day before yesterday.
Given that today's score is 5 runs, we need to determine the score from two days ago, denoted as w.
To find the value of w, we can use the information given. The term "the day before yesterday" means two days before today. So if today is day 1, then the day before yesterday would be day 1 - 2 = day -1.
Therefore, the equation for the total number of runs scored in the past two days is: 5 + w.
Without additional information about the value of w, we cannot determine the specific number of runs they scored in these two days.