Question

Salem High School's winter sports teams WON 72% of their games last season. If the teams played 50 games, how many games did the teams LOSE?

Answer 1

Answer

Find out the how many games did the teams lose .

To prove

Formula

$Percentage = \frac{Part\ value\times 100}{Total\ values}$

As given

Salem High School's winter sports teams WON 72% of their games last season.

If the teams played 50 games .

Percentage = 72%

Total value = 50

Put in the formula

$72 = \frac{Number\ of\ games\ win\times 100}{50}$

$Number\ of\ games\ win = \frac{72\times 50}{100}$

Number of games win = 36

Number of  games teams loses = Total number of games - number of games win

                                                          = 50 - 36

                                                          = 14

Therefore the number of games  team loses are 14 .