Question

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Kate has made 20 free throws in basketball games this year. That is 80% of the free throws she has attempted. To find the total number of free throws she attempted, Kate wrote the equation.
80/100=
what error did kate make

Answer 1

The correct equation would have been 80/100 = 20/x

Explanation:

Kate did not write the other side of the equation. She must set the percentage of throws in fraction form equal to the number of throws over x so that she can cross multiply the fractions across the equal sign and obtain the answer x = 25 throws.