Would it help if you wrote it as
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Then you can cross multiply if you know how to do that.
1*x = (-11)(-3)
x = 33 but what happened to the 2 minus signs?
Remember that a ( - ) times a ( - ) = a plus. The two minus signs become a plus.
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For this equation, you want to do it in fractions/ratios to properly solve it. You would have his average misses out of every field goal and his real missed attempts over total. It would look like this
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You want to solve for x since x is the total amount of field goals that he attempted. You can do this by doing cross multiplication:
(2)(x) = (8)(11)
From here you can get:
2x = 88
Divide each side by 2 to isolate x and you get:
x= 44
So he made a total of 44 field goals.
You want to solve for x since x is the total amount of field goals that he attempted. You can do this by doing cross multiplication:
(2)(x) = (8)(11)
From here you can get:
2x = 88
Divide each side by 2 to isolate x and you get:
x= 44
So he made a total of 44 field goals.