Question

Your soccer team has won 6 games and lost 4 games. If the team does not lose any more games, how many games must the team win to have a win : loss ratio of 5 : 2 Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Answer: 4 games

Step-by-step explanation:

The team has won 6 games and lost 4 games. The win--loss ratio at the moment must be:

= 6 : 4

This must be at its simplest form which is:

= 3 :  2

To take it to 5 : 2, we would have to take up the left side of the ratio by 2.

Because we simplified by using a factor of 2, we have to multiply the 2 we just calculated by the factor to find the number of games needed to be won:

= 2 * 2

= 4 games