Question

a baseball team played 140 regular season games. The ratio of the number of games they won to the number of games they lost was 3
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how many games did they win?
how many games did they lose?

I just need help on a better way of understanding it.

Answer 1

3/7 = L/140

Cross multiply and solve for L.

7L = 420

L = 60 games lost