Problema Solution

In a basketball game, the star player scored 3 times as many points as the mean score of the other 9 players. What fraction of the points scored by the entire team did the star player score?

Answer provided by our tutors

let


m = the mean score of the other 9 players


9m = the total score of the other 9 players


the star player scored 3 times as many points as the mean score of the other 9 players or that is: 3m


the entire team score is: 9m + 3m = 12m


3m/12m = 1/4


the star player scored 1/4 of the points scored by the entire film.