GED Math : Calculations
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Example Question #171 : Statistics
In 2014 the baseball team won the World Series. They won 
To find the total number of games the baseball team won we need to add all of the games they won together.
Example Question #172 : Statistics
In 2014 a professional sport drafted 
To find the percentage of eligible players that were drafted we need to create a proportion.
Now we need to cross multiply and divide to solve the problem.
Example Question #173 : Statistics
To becomes president of the United States you must win one more than half the toital number of electoral votes (each state is alloted a certain number of votes based on population). There are 
To find the minimum numer of votes needed to win we can set up the following equation.
Since we know our number of votes is 538 we get,
Example Question #174 : Statistics
A new donut shop is opening! As an introductory offer they are selling donuts for 
To find out how many donuts John can buy we first need to see how many dozens he can buy with his $18.
To find this we use the following fraction,
From here we multiply each dozen by the number of donuts in a dozen which is 12.
Therefore, John can buy 72 donuts.
Example Question #175 : Statistics
Country A has the largest population on Earth, with 
To find how many more people Country A has than B we need to subtract the number of people in Country B from that in Country A.
From here we will convert the units from billion to million.
0.3 billion is equivalent to 300,000,000
Example Question #171 : Calculations
The highest paid professional athlete in the US in 2014 earned about 
To find how much the athlete earned per game we need to set up a fraction.
$31.9 million is about $32,000,000 and 82 games rounds to 80.
So 
Example Question #172 : Calculations
In 2000 Richard bought a condo for 
To find the amount of growth the condo had per year we first need to find the amount of growht it had total. To find this we subtract the amount he paid from the amount he sold.
The condo grew 
Over 10 years that is 
Example Question #173 : Calculations
Cynthia made 
To find out how many pancakes Jeff ate on average we take the total number of pancakes he ate and divide it by the number of days he ate them.
The following fraction is our solution.
Example Question #174 : Calculations
Determine the range of the numbers:
The range is the difference of the largest and smallest numbers.
The largest number is 11.
The smallest number is negative nine.
Subtract both quantities.
The answer is:
Example Question #180 : Calculations
Use the following data set of test scores to answer the question:
Find the range.
To find the range of a data set, we will find the smallest and largest number within the set. Then, we will find the difference of those two numbers.
So, given the set
we can see the smallest number is 78 and the largest number is 95. Now, we will find the difference.
Therefore, the range of the data set of test scores is 17.
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