You can put this solution on YOUR website! To solve, let's first change this word problem into an equation based on what we know. We know that 7 games is 35% of the total games played (and we need to know the total games played), therefore:
7 games is equal to (=) 35% of (x) y (the letter we will use to represent the total of games played. So,
7 = .35y
It's .35 because we have to change the % to a decimal before we can solve
Now, we need to get y by itself, but first, let's get rid of that decimal. We can do that by multiplying both sides of our equal sign by 100:
7 x 100 = .35y x 100 =
700 = 35y
We will divide both sides of our equal sign by 35, so that we can get y all by itself on the right side of the equal sign:
=
y = 20
Therefore, our final answer is: 20 games were played in all
