Question

A basketball player made 40 out of 50 free throws in last week's games.

a) Find the player's free-throw
percentage. (I believe it's 80%)

b) If the player averages eight free throws
per game, how many of them should she expect to make?

Answer 1

Answer:

a) The player's free-throw percentage is 80%

b) If the player averages 8 free throws per game, she should expect to successfully make 6.4 or about 6.

Step-by-step explanation:

Make the percent (80%) a fraction, 80/100.

Since the total amount of throws she makes is 8, put 8 as the denominator (bottom of the fraction) and an x as the numerator (top of the fraction) since the amount of throws she will make is unknown.

Because 80/100 is her free throw percentage, it should be consistent with the 8 she throws each game. Due to that, the x/8 is equal to the 80/100.

With the equation 80/100 = x/8, multiply diaganolly and you should get 640/100x.

When you divide that, you get 6 40/100 or 6.4 free throws made per every 8 throws. Because you can't make 0.4 of a throw, you round therefore making it 6.

I hope this helps!!! :)

Answer 2

Well for a i would say 80% as well.

and for b i would say maybe 400. i just multiplied 8x50 which gave me 400.

I hope i’m right and i’m dearly sorry if i’m wrong. just trying my best haha