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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 got over now to the kickabout 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 1 - if 50% of the goals were simple tap-ins, how many goals was that?

Ben: Ok, so that's 50/100, or 1/2.

They scored 30 goals in total and 1/2 of 30 is 15.

So the striker scored 15 tap-ins.

Gary: Question 2 - 20% of the striker's goals were headers, so how many goals is that?

Ben: We would write that as 20/100, which is the same as 1/5. 1/5 of 30 is 6, so they scored 6 goals from headers.

10% were penalties, so how many times did the striker fool the keeper?

10% is the same as 1/10 and 1/10 of 30 is 3.

So they scored 3 goals from penalties.

Gary: Question 4 - if the rest of the goals are from free kicks, how many is that?

Ben: No need for percentages, here - just add up the first 3 answers.

15 + 6 + 3 = 24.

Take that away from 30.

6 goals were from free kicks.

Gary: That's all from me for now.

Keep practising and you'll soon be 100% successful.