Question

You are a sportswriter for a newspaper. Today you are writing an article about a professional basketball player. During the players career, the player attempted 1507 free throws and made 1213 of those free throws. What percentage of free throws has this player made

Answer 1

For this case we can make the following rule of three:
 1507 ----> 100%
 1213 ----> x
 Clearing the value of x we have:
 x = (1213/1507) * (100)
 x = 80.4910418
 Rounding off we have:
 x = 80.5%
 Answer:
 this player has made 80.5% of free throws