Question

A student solved the problem below by first dividing 20 by 10. What mistake did the student make?

A baseball team has won 20 games and lost 10 games. What percent of the games did the team win?

Answer 1

Sample Response: The student divided the number of wins by the number of losses, instead of dividing the number of wins by the total number of games. The student should have divided 20 by 30.

Answer 2

50 percent. hope this helps <3