Question

A baseball team is in second place with a win to loss ratio of .535. What percent of the games played did the team win?

Answer 1

34.85%.

Explanation:

We have been given that a baseball team is in second place with a win to loss ratio of .535.

`\text{Win}:\text{Loss}=0.535`

So ratio of win to the total games played would be:

`\text{Win}:\text{total}=(0.535)/(1+0.535)`

`\text{Win}:\text{total}=(0.535)/(1.535)`

`\text{Win}:\text{total}=0.3485342`

Now, we need to convert our given decimal into percentage. So do so, we will multiply 0.3485342 by 100.

`\text{Percent of the games played won by team}=0.3485342* 100\%`

`\text{Percent of the games played won by team}=34.85342\%`

`\text{Percent of the games played won by team}\approx 34.85\%`

Therefore, the team won 34.85% of the played games.