Question

A basketball team won 3/5 of its matches and lost the rest . If it loat 8 matches , how many matches did the team play

Answer 1

if they played total matches suppose _ x,then matches lost will be x- 3x÷5= 2x÷5 , now we can equal both the equations by 2x÷5=8 ,we will find that x= 20 then total matches was played ={20}