Homework Help: math

Posted by Jason P on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:07pm.

in a basketball game, the star player scored 3 times as many points as the average score of the 9 other players. what fraction of the points scored by the entire team did the star player score?

so i guess the total number of players is 10. and then i think you divide something by 10... im not sure. please help

math - Reiny, Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 8:15pm
let average of the other nine players be x
so the total of their points is 9x.
The star scored 3 times as many points as the average, so he scored 3x points

team score = 9x + 3x = 12x

so the fraction of points scored by the star = 3x/(12x) = 1/4

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