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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?

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Answer:

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

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