A baseball team played 25 games and won 10 of the games. What percent of the games did they win?
The fraction
represents the number of games they won out of all the games the baseball team played.
To find out what percent of the games the team won, we can change the fraction
into a percent. We can first reduce this fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the greatest common factor of 10 and 25 using 5.
Our reduced fraction is
.
2 ÷ 5 = 0.4
0.4 × 100 = 40%
Therefore, the baseball team won 40% of the games they played.