the new york rangers hockey team won 3/4 of their gameslast season. If they lost 21 games, how many games did they play tge entire season?
84 games are played and 63 games are won.
Easy since the loses are 21 which is 1/4 so to find out the number of matches i multiplied by 4
84 games
Given:
Question:
How many games did they play the entire season?
The Process:
From the information above, we create a suitable diagram as follows:
\(\boxed{ \ Won \ }\boxed{ \ Won \ }\boxed{ \ Won \ }\boxed{ \ Lost \ }\)
Overall there are 4 units with 3 units won and 1 unit lost.
Let us calculate the number of games they played the entire season.
\(\boxed{ \ 1 \ unit = 21 \ games \ }\)
\(\boxed{ \ 4 \ unit = ? \ games \ }\)
\(\boxed{ \ 4 \ unit = 4 \times 21 \ games \ }\)
\(\boxed{ \ 4 \ unit = 84 \ games \ }\)
Thus the number of games they played the entire season was 84 games.
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