The Tiger football team won 2 out of every 3 games they played. If they played 9 games, how many games did they lose?
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To determine how many games the Tiger football team lost, we can first calculate how many games they won.
Since they won 2 out of every 3 games they played, this means they won 2/3 of the total games.
We can calculate the number of games won by multiplying the total number of games, which is 9, by the fraction they won, 2/3:
2/3 * 9 = 6
Therefore, the team won 6 games.
To find out how many games they lost, we subtract the number of games won from the total number of games:
9 - 6 = 3
So, the Tiger football team lost 3 games.