Question

a baseball team played 35 games and won 4\5 of them how many games were lost

Answer 1

4/5 of 35
4/5 x 35/1
140/5
28 won
7 lost

Answer 2

1/5 games were lost, so you have to find one fifth of the total number of games (35).
1/5 = 0.2
35 x 0.2 = 7 games lost, 28 games won.