Question

A baseball team played 147 regular season games. The ratio of the number of games they won to the number of games they lost was four thirds 4/3. How many games did they​ win? How many games did they​ lose?

Answer 1

Given that the team played 147 and the ratio of games won to games lost is 4:3, that means that for every four games they won, they lost three.

For these problems, it is often easier to rewrite the ratio as a fraction, so 4:3 as 4/7. (These are equivalent because the first ratio is four in a sample of four plus three, or four out of seven.)

So, we can write
`147* (4)/(7) = (21)(7) (4)/(7) = 4(21) = 84`.

Therefore, the team won 84 games.

Answer 2

147 : ( 4 + 3 ) = 21

21 * 4 = 84 (win)
21 * 3 = 63 (lost)
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84 + 63 = 147

84/63 = 4/3