Question 638487
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:

{{{700/35 = 35y/35}}} =

y = 20

Therefore, our final answer is: 20 games were played in all