Hockey Teams Receive 2 Points When They Win And 1 Point When They Tie. One Season A Team Won A Championship With 52 Points. They Won 11 More Games Then They Tied. How Many Did They Win And How Many Were Tied?

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Your use of the word "then", instead of "than", implies that there was a sequence of 12 games involving 11 wins and a tie. This tends to be confusing. I assume you mean "they won 11 more games than they tied."

Let w = the number of wins, t = the number of ties.
2w+t = 52    (total points for the season)
w = t+11    (wins exceeded ties by 11)

2(t+11) + t = 52    (substitute the expression for w into the first equation)
3t + 22 = 52    (use the distributive property, and collect terms)
3t = 30    (subtract 22 from both sides)
t = 10    (divide both sides by 3)
w = 10+11 = 21    (use the expression for w to find the value of w)

The team won 21 and tied 10 games.
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They got 42 points for their wins and 10 points for their ties, totaling 52 points.

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