Melinda is practicing her penalty kicks. She took 40 shots and only missed 8. Based on the data, how many penalty kicks will Melinda make if she takes 60 shots?
2 Answers
Mar 26, 2018
Her success (rate) chance is
Explanation:
Therefore, she will make
Mar 26, 2018
48
Explanation:
We can solve this in different ways:
1/
As direct proportion:
For direct proportion we have:
Where
Form given information:
If she took 40 shots and missed 8 the she made 32.
Let
So we have:
For 60 shots,
So she will make 48 penalty kicks
2/
As a percentage:
She had 32 successes out of 40, this as a percentage is:
We now find
This also gives us the same result.