Question

Bruce pitches for his little brother's baseball team. He has observed that the number of pitches a batter hits varies and is given by the function
f(x) = x – 11, where x is the number of pitches and f(x) is the number of hits. If batters get {4, 12, 14, 27, 42} hits, how many pitches did Bruce throw?

Answer 1

answer choices

{13, 21, 24, 26, 44}
{17, 24, 27, 28, 35}
{20, 27, 32, 33, 45}
{15, 23, 25, 38, 53}

Answer 2

wow what a lot of meaningless words to add to the question
add 11 to each entry in {4, 12, 14, 27, 42} and see which one you get
i am sure you can do it in your head

Answer 3

oh ok so its D

Answer 4

yup

Answer 5

thanks i really appreciate it