SOLUTION: if a baseball player has a batting average of 0.250, his ratio of hits to at-bats is 250 / 1000. How many base hits would a player with a batting average of 0.250 have if he had 56

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Question 1101945: if a baseball player has a batting average of 0.250, his ratio of hits to at-bats is 250 / 1000. How many base hits would a player with a batting average of 0.250 have if he had 560 at-bats?
Answer by Theo(13342) About Me  (Show Source):
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he gets 250 hits for every 1000 times at bat.

that's a ratio of 250 / 1000 = .250

if he has 560 at bats, the number of hits would be equal to .250 * 560 = 140 based on this ratio.

140 / 560 = .250.