Question

on the average a baseball team wins two out of every three games it plays, how many games will this team lose in a 162 game season

Answer 1

Just divide 162 by 3.

Answer 2

\[\underbrace{\dfrac{1}{3}\times162}_{\text{Anount of game lost}}+\underbrace{\dfrac{2}{3}\times162}_{\text{Amount of games won}}=\underbrace{162}_{\text{Total games}}\]

Does that make sense?

Answer 3

I used ratios and found the number of wins/total games played, then subtracted that number of wins from the total number of games to get the number of losses.