If a baseball player has 18 hits in 50 at bat,what is the probability that he will get a hit in his next at bat? Express your answer as a decimal number in the thousandths place.
18/50 = 0.360
To calculate the probability of getting a hit in the next at-bat, we can use the player's batting average. The batting average is calculated by dividing the total number of hits by the total number of at-bats.
In this case, the player has 18 hits in 50 at-bats. So, the batting average is 18/50, which can be simplified to 0.36.
Therefore, the probability of getting a hit in the next at-bat is 0.36, or 36% (expressed as a decimal).