Introduction to Percents Assignment

A baseball team played 75 games and lost 20% of them. How many games did the team lose?

15

Creating a Diagram So far this season, a team has won 51 out of 68 games. Identify the values of a, b, c, and d that complete the bar diagram for this situation.

25 100 17 68

A baseball player got 102 hits in the last 300 times at bat. What percent of the times at-bat did the player get a hit? The player got a hit 34 % of the time.

34

A baseball player got 102 hits in the last 300 times at bat. Explain how you would find the percent of times the baseball player got a hit out of the number of times at bat.

Divide 102 by 300 to get .34 and multiply it by 100% to get 34% and with that is how you would get the ancer

A team has won 51 out of 68 games. Explain how to use the bar diagram to find the percent of games the team has won.

In the diagram, 17 represents 25% of the total games. Since 17 times 3 equals 51, you use the first 3 columns to find an answer of 75%.

The Badgers and the Cougars have won the same number of games. However, the Badgers have won a greater percent of their games than the Cougars have. Explain how this is possible.

Since the percent of wins is the ratio of the number of wins to the total number of games played, the Badgers must have played fewer games.

A student solved the problem below by first dividing 20 by 10. What mistake did the student make? A baseball team has won 20 games and lost 10 games. What percent of the games did the team win?

The student divided the number of wins by the number of losses, instead of dividing the number of wins by the total number of games. The student should have divided 20 by 30.

A baseball team won 20 games and lost 10 games. What percent of the games did the team win?

c

The records of four baseball teams are shown below. Which team had the greatest percent of wins?

the Cobras