Question

A home team's score was 92 points. If you doubled the visiting team's score and subtracted 40, you would also have 92 points. What was the visiting team's score?

Answer 1

\[2x-40 = 92\]
x is visiting team's score

Answer 2

Let us set up the equation:
let v = visiting team's score
to double is to multiply by 2
Set up the equation

Answer 3

then solve for v:
2v - 40 = 92