A baseball team has won 8 out of the first 20 games and has 40 games remaining. The team needs a winning percentage of 62.5% make the playoffs. How many more wins does the team need in order to get into the playoffs? If the team wins the number of games to get into the playoffs, what is the final win percentage if the team wins 2 and loses 3 games in the playoff?

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Rebecca Moyer

Mathematics

18 July, 15:39

A baseball team has won 8 out of the first 20 games and has 40 games remaining. The team needs a winning percentage of 62.5% make the playoffs. How many more wins does the team need in order to get into the playoffs? If the team wins the number of games to get into the playoffs, what is the final win percentage if the team wins 2 and loses 3 games in the playoff?

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Dangelo Costa · Answer 1

They've already played 20 games and there are 40 remaining, so 60 total games.

80 *.625 = 37.5, so they need to win at least 38 games to make the playoffs. So they must win 30 more games. If they do so they'll have won 38 out of 60. Winning 2 games out of 5 in the playoffs means their total is 40 out of 65. 40/65 =.6153 = 61.5%.