Jason burned 1,400 calories friday playing 1 hour of basketball and canoeing for 2 hours. on saturday, he spent 2 hours playing basketball and 3 hours canoeing and burned 2,500 calories. how many calories did he burn per hour when playing basketball?

He burned 800 calories per hour playing basketball.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let be "b" the amount of calories  per hour Jason burned playing basketball and "c" the amount of calories  per hour Jason burned canoeing.

Set up a system of equations:

You can apply Elimination Method:

Therefore, you get:

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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17.08

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