In baseball, batting average is calculated by using the number of hits divided by the number of at bats. If a baseball player has a batting average of .275 and has 80 at bats, how many hits has he made? Which property will you apply to find the solution?
To find the number of hits, we can multiply the batter's batting average by the number of at-bats.
Hence, the player has made 275 hits.
To find this result, we have applied the commutative property of multiplication.
In baseball, batting average is calculated by using the number of hits divided by the number of at bats. If a baseball player has a batting average of .275 and has 80 at bats, how many hits has he made? Which property will you apply to find the solution?
a. x=22 hits; multiplication property of equality
b. x=22 hits; division property of equality
To find the number of hits, we can multiply the batter's batting average by the number of at-bats.
Therefore, the player has made 22 hits.
To find this solution, we have applied the multiplication property of equality, not the division property of equality.
To find the number of hits a baseball player has made, we can use the formula for calculating batting average:
Batting Average = Number of Hits / Number of At Bats
Given that the player has a batting average of .275 and has 80 at-bats, we can rearrange the equation to solve for the number of hits:
Number of Hits = Batting Average × Number of At Bats
Number of Hits = .275 × 80
To find the solution, we will apply the property of multiplication.
To find the number of hits a baseball player has made, we can use the equation for batting average: batting average = number of hits / number of at bats. We are given that the player has a batting average of .275 and has 80 at bats.
To find the number of hits, we can rearrange the equation: number of hits = batting average x number of at bats.
So, to solve the problem, we can multiply .275 (the batting average) by 80 (the number of at bats).
The property that we will apply to find the solution is the commutative property of multiplication, which states that the order in which numbers are multiplied does not affect the product. Therefore, we can multiply .275 by 80, or 80 by .275, and the result will be the same.
Now, let's calculate the solution:
Number of hits = .275 x 80
= 22
Therefore, the baseball player has made 22 hits.