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During a certain season, a team won 80 percent of its first 100 games and 50 percent of its remaining games. If the team won 70 percent of its games for the entire season, what was the total number of games that the team played?

(A) 180
(B) 170
(C) 156
(D) 150
(E) 105

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Re: During a certain season, a team won 80 percent of its first [#permalink]

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Walkabout wrote:

This is simple weighted average question.

Let the # of the remaining games be x then 0.8*100+0.5*x=0.7*(100+x) --> x=50 --> total # of games thus equal to 100+x=100+50=150.

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