Question

a baseball team played 147 regular season games. The ratio of the games they won to the number of games they lost was 2/5. How many games did they win? how many games did they lose?

Answer 1

~59 games won, ~88 games lost

Explanation:

I divided 147 by 5 to do a base unit. Then I multiplied by 2 for the amount won, then I multiplied by 3 for the amount lost. Hope this helps!