a football team won 3 times as many games as they lost. if they lost 5 games , how many games did they play?

lost 5

won 15
played 20

The answers is 50,000

It’s also 70

To determine the total number of games the football team played, we need to find out the number of games they won. We are given that they won 3 times as many games as they lost. Therefore, to find the number of games they won, we can multiply the number of games lost by 3.

Given that they lost 5 games, we can calculate the number of games won by multiplying 5 by 3:

Number of games won = 5 x 3 = 15

Now that we have the number of games won and lost, we can find the total number of games played by adding these two numbers together:

Total number of games played = Number of games won + Number of games lost
Total number of games played = 15 + 5 = 20

Therefore, the football team played a total of 20 games.