A soccer team won 3/4 of their games last season. If they lost 18 games , how many games did they play in the entire season.

Answer 1

If they won 3/4 of their games, then they lost 1/4 of their games. So, we can make a proportion.

let x = how many games they played the entire season.

1/4 = 18/x

Cross multiply.

x = 4(18)

x = 72

They played a total of 72 games.

Another way to solve this would be to make a percentage.
1/4 = 25%

let x = how many games they played in the entire season

25% of x = 18

0.25x = 18

18 divided by 0.25 is 72.

They played a total of 72 games.