SOLUTION: A football team has won 10 games and lost 5. If the team wins the remaining games,
they will have won 75% of all the games. How many more games will they play?
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Question 358985: A football team has won 10 games and lost 5. If the team wins the remaining games,
they will have won 75% of all the games. How many more games will they play?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So far they their winning ratio is . After x more games, their winning ratio would be , and this should be 0.75. Hence
.
,
, and
.
Thus they play 5 more games.
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