SOLUTION: Last season, a major league baseball player got 160 hits in 200 times at bat. If the player expects to bat 500 times in the entire season with the same ration of hits to at bats,

Question 287900: Last season, a major league baseball player got 160 hits in 200 times at bat. If the player expects to bat 500 times in the entire season with the same ration of hits to at bats, how many hits can the player expect to have?
Found 2 solutions by josmiceli, richwmiller:
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Multiply both sides by

The player can expect 400 hits
Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
160/200 is 40/50=4/5=.8=80%

160/200=4/5=x/500
5x=2000
x=400
400/500=4/5

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