Question

Janelle and her dad share a love of baseball. Every weekend, they go to the batting cages to practice hitting. Janelle’s dad buys her token for her to use in the batting cage. There is a proportional relationship between the number of tokens used, y, and the number of pitches thrown by the pitching machine, y.The equation that models this situation is y= 6x.If Janelle’s father gives her one token, how many pitches from the pitching machine will be thrown? *

Answer 1

6 pitches

Explanation:

y = kx

y = 6x

x = 1

y = 6(1) = 6

Answer 2

6 pitches

Explanation:

y= 6x

Assuming there is a typo in the question and x is the number of tokens used and y is the number of pitches thrown,

Let x be 1 token

y = 6*1 = 6

There will be 6 pitches thrown