Question

1. A basketball player made 12 out of 15 free throws she attempted. She wants to know how many consecutive free throws she would have to make to raise the percent of successful free throws to 85%. (a) Write an equation to represent this situation. (b) Solve the equation. How many consecutive free throws would she have to make to raise her percent to 85%?

Answer 1

So 12 of 15 free throws is 80% so she would have to make at least 13 of 15 free throws to at least get over 85% cause 13 of 15 is 86.6% repeated

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