Question

Pietro made 20 baskets during a basketball game. the number of 3 point shots was two more than half the number of 2 point shots how many of each type of shot did he make how many total points did he get

Answer 1

To answer this item, we let x be the number of 2-point shot made by Pietro. With this representation, the number of 3-point shots made was 0.5x + 2. Adding the two expression is supposed to give us 20. Then, the answer would be,
x + (0.5x + 2) = 20
The value of x is 12. Therefore, Pietro made 12 2-point shots and 8 3-point shots.