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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?

 Sep 14, 2016
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The number of hits is given by f(x)

The numbers of HITS are given as 4  12  14  27  42

f(x) = 4 = x-11    solve for 'x'   x = 15 PITCHES

f(x) = 12 = x-11                       x = 23 pitches

etc

etc......Then add all of the pitches....

 Sep 14, 2016
edited by ElectricPavlov  Sep 14, 2016

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