GARY: Football is full of numbers, 11 against 11, 4-4-2, goal tallies, so, next time you watch a football match, look out for the hidden maths.
Let's go over now to the 鈥楰ickabout鈥 studio to see what today's Maths Of The Day topic is.
BEN: Thanks, Gary.
Today's Maths Of The Day topic is Pitch Percentages.
So, what is a percentage?
Think of any measurement or object split into 100 equal bits.
Each bit is 1% - or 1/100 - of the whole thing.
So when footballers say, 'I gave it 110% out there,' they're saying, 'I did the impossible,' because they gave it everything they had and then some more.
Back to you in the studio, Gary.
GARY: Thanks, Ben. Let's see how good you are with percentages.
Your star striker scores 30 goals in a season.
You need to use percentages to work out how many of each goal type they scored.
Question one - if 50% of the goals were simple tap-ins, how many goals was that?
Ok, so that's 50/100, or half.
They scored 30 goals in total and half of 30 is 15.
So the striker scored 15 tap-ins.
Question two - 20% of the striker's goals were headers, so how many goals is that?
We would write that as 20/100, which is the same as one fifth. One fifth of 30 is six, so they scored six goals from headers.
10% were penalties, so how many times did the striker fool the keeper?
10% is the same as one tenth, and one tenth of 30 is three.
So they scored three goals from penalties.
Question four - if the rest of the goals are from free kicks, how many is that?
No need for percentages, here - just add up the first three answers.
15 + 6 + 3 = 24. Take that away from 30.
Six goals were from free kicks.
That's all from me for now.
Keep practising and you'll soon be 100% successful.