a football team won 3 more games than it lost.the team played 11 games.how many did it win?

a football team won 3 more games than it lost.the team played 11 games.how many did it win?

Let wins be w. Let losses be l. We're given two equations:

1. w = l + 3
2. l + w = 11

Plug equation (1) into equation (2) to solve for l:
l + (l + 3) = 11

Group like terms:
2l + 3 = 11

Typing this equation into our search engine, we get:
l = 4

To solve for w, we plug in l = 4 above into equation (1):
w = 4 + 3
w = 7