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Answer 1

Michael Jordan is widely known for his legendary basketball career. He is a said to be one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 1993, Jordan retired from the NBA to pursue a professional baseball career. Do you think his baseball career damaged his renowned athletic career?

The following chart contains Michael Jordan's Baseball Stats. Research baseball statistics online to determine what each labels represent in the baseball world.

Year Avg Gm AB R H TB 2B 3B HR

1994 0.202 127 436 46 88 116 17 1 3

1) How can you use the given information to determine how many singles Jordan hit during his baseball career? Do the calculation and show your work.
2) Find MJ's slugging average. Do the calculation and show your work.
3) Based on his slugging average, do you think Jordan was a good baseball player? Do you think baseball damaged his renowned athletic career?

Answer 2

I need if not help on answering the questions, then at least at explaining the abbreviations.

Answer 3

@Hero @Nurali @myininaya @robtobey

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_statistics#Commonly_used_statistics

Answer 5

But B1 is not in the chart, how would I determine the singles he hit?

Answer 6

By using TB. The Rule for TB will help you answer how many singles he hit.

Answer 7

TB = [H + 2B + (2 * 3B) + (3 * HR)] or [1B + (2 * 2B) + (3 * 3B) + (4 * HR)] right ?

Answer 8

Which TB equation would you use here?

Answer 9

Not the one I posted ?

Answer 10

Yes that one-but there are two equations you can use for TB.

Which one would you use?

Answer 11

I don't know.