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Lesson 28
Organize, Represent, and Express
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Practice 2:

You are the student manager of your school's softball team. It is the last inning of the championship game and the score is tied. Your team has two outs and one runner, Cindy, on second base. Cindy is a good runner. The coach has asked you to recommend which pinch hitter to use in hopes of driving in the winning run. You have two hitters to choose from, Dana and Imani. Their batting statistics are shown below.

Player
Walks
Hits
Outs
Dana
57
20
97
Imani
47
16
59

Show a way to represent the data to help make your decision. Which player would you chose? Write what you would describe to the coach to support your choice, based on mathematical analysis.

Begin by writing how you might show how you could represent the data in the chart to help you make a decision.

The next part of this extended response question is make a decision of who to recommend to go in and hit. Type in the box below who you would recommend to the coach to go in.

The final part of this problem is to explain to the coach your reasoning for selecting the player you did. In the box below type in your reason for your selection.

 

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