a baseball player has 9 hits in his first 60 at bats. how many consecutive hits would he need to bring his average up to 0.400?
Let the amount of consecutive hits needed be h. We have:
hits / at bats = Batting Average
Plugging in our numbers, we get:
(9 + h)/60 = 0.400
Cross multiply:
9 + h = 60 * 0.4
9 + h = 24
To solve this equation for h, we type it in our search engine and we get:
h = 15
Let the amount of consecutive hits needed be h. We have:
hits / at bats = Batting Average
Plugging in our numbers, we get:
(9 + h)/60 = 0.400
Cross multiply:
9 + h = 60 * 0.4
9 + h = 24
To solve this equation for h, we type it in our search engine and we get:
h = 15