In a basketball tournament, team a scored 5 fewer than twice as many points as team b. team c scored 80 more points than team b. the combined score for all three teams was 983 points. write an equation to represent this scenario using the variable b to represent team b’s total points.

Let us assume number of points scored by Team B = b points.

Number of points scored by Team A 5 fewer than twice as many points as Team B, that is "5 less than 2b" = (2b-5) points .

Team C scored 80 more points than Team B, that is " 80 more than b" = (b+80) points.

Total number of points scored by all teams = 983 points.

Therefore, we can setup an equation:

Therefore, an equation to represent this scenario using the variable b to represent Team B’s total points is (2b-5) + b + (b+80) = 983.