Question

A baseball team played 154 regular season games. The ratio of the number of games they won to the number of games they lost was 5/2. How many games did they win?

Answer 1

Number of games won = 110

Explanation:

Given:

Total games played = 154

The ratio of number of games won to number of games lost =
`(5)/(2)`

Solution:

Let the number of games won be =
`5x`

Thus, number of games lost =
`2x`

The total games played can be given as =
`5x+2x=7x`

Thus, we have:

`7x=154`

Dividing both sides by 7.

`(7x)/(7)=(154)/(7)`

∴
`x=22`

So, number of games won =
`5* 22 = 110`