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Solving Inequalities Word Problems - Examples & Practice
By Jonathan Heller
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In baseball, a players batting average is their number of hits divided by their number of at bats throughout an entire season, and is shown as a 3 digit decimal (ex. a batting average of 0.300 = 30% of at bats are hits).
Your friend and baseball superstar Bryce is trying to break the record batting average of 0.426. If he is expecting to have 450 at bats in this season, how many hits does he need to break the record?
Answers are rounded to the nearest whole number.