SOLUTION: Baseball team won 70 games and they have 40 games left to play. how many games must they win out of the remaining games to finish the season with a 70% win?

Question 980049: Baseball team won 70 games and they have 40 games left to play. how many games must they win out of the remaining games to finish the season with a 70% win?
Answer by josh_jordan(263) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The Baseball team has already won 70 games, but they have 40 games left to play, which means the total number of games they will play is 110. In order to find out how many games out of the remaining number of games left they must win for a 70% win, we have to set up an equation that looks like this:

The number of total games they must win is represented by x, since we do not yet know how many total games they must win. When we divide x number of games by the total number of games, our percentage must be 70. In decimal form, 70% is .70.
To find x, we first multiply both side of the equation by 110, which will give us

x = 110 * .70 ------> x = 77

Therefore, the total number of games they need to win for a 70% win is 77. They have already played 70 games, which means the number of games they must win out of the remaining games is 7.

Answer: 7 games
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