Question

The question is: "A soccer team played 160 games & won 65% of them. How many games did it win?"
>I multiplied 160*5 first = 800
>then 160*the6 to get = 1000
>(my tutor said to put a zero in front of the 800) >and they got the right answer: 104
Could someone tell me where the random '1' comes in? I can't see where it'd come from. thanks!

Answer 1

actually the only thing you need to do is 160 x .65 .

Answer 2

Wait...what?

Multiply the 160 by the 5 first...

160 * 5 = 800 yes

then multiply the 160 by the 6 (don't forget to put the 0 because of the 10's place now

160 * 6 = 9600

9600
+800
------
10400

104.00

Answer 3

Percent is less than 1 so when you when 65 percent you are winning .65 of them so just multiply by .65 and you will find 65 hundreths or 65 percent of 160

Answer 4

*The only thing is she has to do them by hand*

Answer 5

Oh wow! Thanks again John your a life saver!!

Answer 6

Lol no problem...I don't know where your tutor came up with that 1000 or anything but yeah :)

Answer 7

.65= .60 + .05

160( .65) = 160 ( .60 + .05) = 160 * .6 + 160 * .05

Answer 8

I don't know. He's not talkative when he "teaches", he writes and expects me to follow with no explanation so I've been double checking on here (good idea apparently!)

Answer 9

step one- ignore the decimal