Texas Instruments TI-34 II Explorer Plus User Manual page 11

The Better Batter—
The Fix Key
Problem
You are going to play Virtual Baseball. You need to select 9 players from the list to
be on your team. Choose the players with the best batting averages.
Procedure
1. Find the batting averages (number of hits
3 decimal places for each player.
Player
C. Ripken
Puckett
Molitor
Greenwell
Tartabull
Palmeiro
Franco
Joyner
Boggs
Baines
Sax
Williams
Sheridan
Barfield
Mattingly
Hall
2. Make a list of your players in order, from highest to lowest.
Player 1
Player 2
Player 3
Player 4
Player 5
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EXAS NSTRUMENTS
Number of Hits
122
119
119
104
103
120
109
105
106
91
113
20
15
64
109
87
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Date ___________________________
¾ number of times at bat) rounded to
Number of Batting Average
Times at Bat
(rounded to 3 decimal places)
368
363
364
334
311
366
344
338
329
290
388
74
63
284
367
280
Player 6 ____________________
Player 7 ____________________
Player 8 ____________________
Player 9 ____________________
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