Question

A basketball player successfully makes 21 out of 39 free throws attempts. To the nearest thousandth, what part of the time was he successful in making his free throws?

Answer 1

To calculate the success rate, divide 21 by 39 to get approximately 0.5385, which rounds to 0.538 or 53.8% success rate.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the part of the time the basketball player was successful in making free throws, we divide the number of successful throws by the total number of attempts and then convert the result to a decimal. The player made 21 out of 39 free throws.

• Calculate the success rate: 21 / 39
• Divide to get a decimal: Approximately 0.5385
• Round to the nearest thousandth: 0.538 (since the digit after the third decimal place is less than 5, there's no need to round up)

The player was successful 53.8% of the time, to the nearest thousandth.

Answer 2

0.538

EXPLANATION

The basketball player successfully makes 21 out of 39 free throw attempts.

To find the part of the time that he was successful, we have to divide the total number of attempts by the successful number of attempts that he had.

That is:

`\begin{gathered} (21)/(39) \\ \text{Simplifying it by dividing by 3:} \\ (7)/(13) \\ \text{Converting to decimal:} \\ 0.538 \end{gathered}`

That is the answer.