For this equation, you want to do it in fractions/ratios to properly solve it. You would have his average misses out of every field goal and his real missed attempts over total. It would look like this
[tex] \frac{2}{11} [/tex] = [tex] \frac{8}{x} [/tex]
You want to solve for x since x is the total amount of field goals that he attempted. You can do this by doing cross multiplication:
(2)(x) = (8)(11)
From here you can get:
2x = 88
Divide each side by 2 to isolate x and you get:
x= 44
So he made a total of 44 field goals.
