SOLUTION: Please help me solve this math word problem. A baseball player made 14 errors in 156 games this year. About how many errors would you expect the player to make in 350 games?

Question 394569: Please help me solve this math word problem. A baseball player made 14 errors in 156 games this year. About how many errors would you expect the player to make in 350 games?
Answer by pie90010(44) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
just make a proportion, i think you need to assume that its if the player keeps playing at the same rate
=
now just cross multiply

you can't have a fraction of an error, so just say he would have made about
31 errors
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