Question

The Alden Middle School girls' soccer team won 80% of its games this season. If the team won 12 games,how many games did it play?

Answer 1

15 games

Explanation:

Since the team won 80% of the games and won 12, we can put these into an equation.

80% is also 0.8 so:

x * 0.8 = 12

To find x we can simply do 12 divided by 0.8 which equals =

15