SOLUTION: Hey i have a question: One baseball team won 10 games throughout their entire season. Of all the games, this team won 40 % of them. Given this, how many games did the team win

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Question 1055683: Hey i have a question:

One baseball team won 10 games throughout their entire season. Of all the games, this team won 40 % of them. Given this, how many games did the team win in total. Round to the nearest whole number is necessary.
Please help!

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This says that 10 games is 40% of all
the games they played
Let = the total of the games they played




So, the team played 25 games total
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Is the problem " how many games did they win?"
or is it "How many games did they play?"

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