If I have 954 wins and my ratio for wins:loss is 1.29 how many losses do I have?

Question

how can I get my losses if i have 954 wins and my win to loss ratio is 1.29???

Answer 1

W/L = 1.29

954/L = 1.29

Did you know that we can take the reciprocals of both sides & still have a valid equation? Then

L/954 = 1/1.29.  

 

Now we multiply both sides by 954 and get L = 954/1.29 = 739.5348837 

so I guess we must round up to 740 losses.

 

As you can imagine, the ratio would have been better if taken to about 5 decimal places.