Question

The school tennis team played 15 matches and won 12 of them. What is the team's winning percentage?

Answer 1

Divide 12 by 15

Answer 2

divide 12 by 15 then mulpply by 100

Answer 3

The percentage is just the amount out of the total. Just thinking about normally, you probably know that when you flip a coin you get heads 50% of the time, right? What's 50%? It's just the total amount of heads you flip out of all of the possibilities. 1 head for every 2 choices possible heads or tails.

Remember, 1/2=.5 and .5*100%=50%.