Question

an NFL team kicker misses 2 out of every 11 field goals if he missed 8 filed goals throughout the season how many did he attempt

Answer 1

He attempted 88 and made 44 of his attempts

Explanation:

Answer 2

For this equation, you want to do it in fractions/ratios to properly solve it. You would have his average misses out of every field goal and his real missed attempts over total. It would look like this


`(2)/(11)` =
`(8)/(x)`

You want to solve for x since x is the total amount of field goals that he attempted. You can do this by doing cross multiplication:

(2)(x) = (8)(11)

From here you can get:

2x = 88

Divide each side by 2 to isolate x and you get:

x= 44

So he made a total of 44 field goals.