the baseball game lost 13 games this season. That was 5/8 of all they played. How many games did they play this season.?
kylaa/awol -- I think you have an error in this problem.
The answer is a fraction which cannot be right.
our soccer team lost 9 games this season. That was 3/8of all they played. How many games did they play this season.?
http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1335374621
To find out the total number of games played in the season, we can use a simple proportion. Let's represent the total number of games played as "x".
We know that "5/8" of the total games played equals 13.
So, we can set up the proportion:
5/8 = 13/x
To solve this proportion, we can cross-multiply:
5x = 13 * 8
5x = 104
Now, divide both sides of the equation by 5 to isolate "x":
x = 104 / 5
x = 20.8
Since we can't have a fraction of a game, we'll round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, the baseball team played 21 games this season.