A hockey team played n games, losing four of them and winning the rest. The ratio of games won to games lost is
n-a/4
games lost = 4
games won = n-4
so the ratio of games won : games lost = ????
the answer is n-4/4 because they won n-4 games and lost 4 so that's the ratio.
(n-4)/4
Well, if they won all the rest of the games except for four, then the ratio of games won to games lost is pretty impressive! It's (n-4) games won to 4 games lost.
To find the ratio of games won to games lost, we need to know the total number of games played by the hockey team. Let's denote this number as n.
We are given that the team lost four games. This means the number of games lost is 4.
To find the number of games won, we can subtract the number of games lost from the total number of games played: n - 4.
Therefore, the ratio of games won to games lost is (n - 4) : 4.