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Ned has scored 84 points in the first 6 games of the basketball season. How many points per game has Ned scored?

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A good strategy to show this is using ratios or proportions.

84 points : 6 games = 14 points : 1 game

SCALE FACTOR: To figure out the scale factor divide the information that is matched. In this case it would be 6 games divided by 1 game. Your scale factor is 6. Multiply the information that matches the information that is missing. So, in this case it would be 84 points divided by 6. You are dividing because you want to know how much Ned scored in one game, now if you wanted to know how much Ned made in 12 games you would multiply 84 by 6. 84 divided by 6 = 14


ANSWER: NED SCORES 14 POINTS PER GAME
User Kyle Howells
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Ned must have scored an avg. of 14 points per game in his 6 games total.
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