Greg's football team played 16 games this season and won 12 of the games. What percent of the of the games did Greg's team win?
The fraction
represents the 12 games that Greg's team won out of all the games the team played.
To find out what percent of the games that Greg's team won, we can turn
into a percent.
We can first reduce this fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the greatest common factor of 12 and 16 using 4.
Now, we have our reduced fraction which is
.
3 ÷ 4 = 0.75
0.75 × 100 = 75%
Therefore, Greg's football team won 75% of the games that they played.