emily made 75% of the baskets that she attempted. if she made 9 baskets, how many attempts did she make?
Mathematics · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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So from the problem we know that 75% of the entire attempts, lets call them X, is 9 baskets. What we need is 100% of this X so the entire attempts.
We can try to create a simple ratio using the information that we have:
If 75% is 9
Then 100% is X
In this ratio we can try to cross multiply, so we will multiply 75% with X and this will be equal to the multiplication of 9 and 100%.
Written mathematically:
75x =100*9
75x = 900
Lets divide both sides with 75
x = 900/75
x=12 attempts