A baseball team wins 60% of their first 70 games. They have 40 games left in the season. How many more games do they need to win to get a perfect 70%.

Is the answer 35%?

The question asks for the number of games they need to win. It doesn't ask for a percentage.

How many games has the team won so far?

How many games will they play this season?

How many games do they need to win?

How many more games do they need to win?

How many games has the team won so far?

42
How many games will they play this season? 110

How many games do they need to win? 77

How many more games do they need to win? 35

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To find the number of additional games the baseball team needs to win in order to achieve a perfect 70% winning percentage, we need to calculate the number of games they have already won and the number of games they need to win from the remaining 40 games.

The team has played 70 games so far and won 60% of those games. To calculate the number of games they have won, we multiply 70 by 0.6:

70 (games) * 0.6 (winning percentage) = 42 (games won)

Therefore, the team has already won 42 games out of the first 70.

To determine how many more games they need to win to achieve a 70% winning percentage, we first need to determine how many total games they will have played by the end of the season. This would be the sum of games played so far (70) and the remaining games (40):

70 (games played so far) + 40 (remaining games) = 110 (total games for the season)

To calculate the number of games the team needs to win to achieve a 70% winning percentage, we need to find what 70% of the total games would be:

110 (total games) * 0.7 (target winning percentage) = 77 (games needed to win)

Since the team has already won 42 games, they still need to win:

77 (games needed to win) - 42 (games already won) = 35 (games needed to win)

Therefore, the team needs to win 35 more games out of the remaining 40 to achieve a perfect 70% winning percentage. So the answer is 35 games, not 35%.