Question

A baseball player reaches first base 30% of the time he is at bat.out of 50 times at bat,about how many times will the player reach first base?

Answer 1

15 times

Explanation:

If he bats 50 times, he will be expected to reach first base "30% of the time".

We simply need to find "what is 30% of 50?"

We first need to convert the percentage (30%) to decimal and then multiply that with 50 to get our answer.

Converting percentage to decimal is very simple! We divide by 100. That's it!

So, we have:

30% = 30/100 = 0.3

Now we do the multiplication:

0.3 * 50 = 15

So, the player would reach first base 15 times (out of 50 times of batting)