Kiera studied data collected on the school basketball team for one season she noticed that a player on the team had 13 successful free throws out of a total of 20 attempted free throws to find the percentage of the total free throws attempted by this player that were successful what are the ratios for 13/20 equals m/n what are the values of m and n in Kira’s equation
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If she is setting up a proportion to find the percent, the value of m would be any variable and the value of n would be 100. When she solves the problem, m=65%.
13/20 is part out of whole. The rest of the proportion will be "percent out of 100"; since we don't initially know the percent, we use a variable. Thus we have