SOLUTION: last season a major league baseball player got 80 hits in 200 times at bat. if the player expects to bat 500 times in the entire season with the same ratio of hits to at bats how m

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Question 137346: last season a major league baseball player got 80 hits in 200 times at bat. if the player expects to bat 500 times in the entire season with the same ratio of hits to at bats how many hits can the player expect to have?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Equate the ratios.
80%2F200=x%2F500
where x is the number of hits out of 500.
x=500%2A80%2F200
x=200