orlando likes baseball. He's a good fielder, but he wants to improve his batting average. currently .200 (or 20%) for the first part of the season. he practiced a lot with a friend and managed to hit 10 out of 20 times that he was up to bat that season.

Suppose Orlando's batting average at the ened of the season is 30% How many hits did he get during the earlier part of the season?(when his average was 20%)

To determine the number of hits Orlando got during the earlier part of the season when his batting average was 20%, we can set up a proportion based on the given information.

Let x represent the number of hits Orlando got during the earlier part of the season. Since his batting average was 20%, this means he got 20% of the hits out of the total number of times he was up to bat.

Therefore, we can set up the proportion:

x / (total number of times up to bat during the earlier part of the season) = 20% / 100%

Simplifying the proportion, we have:

x / (total number of times up to bat during the earlier part of the season) = 0.20

To find the total number of times up to bat during the earlier part of the season, we can use the information given that he hit 10 out of 20 times during the season:

(total number of times up to bat during the earlier part of the season) = 20

Now we can substitute this value into the proportion:

x / 20 = 0.20

To isolate x, we can cross multiply:

x = 20 * 0.20

x = 4

So, Orlando got 4 hits during the earlier part of the season when his batting average was 20%.