Chapter 13.1, Problem 23ES

Baseball In baseball, a batter’s slugging average, which measures the hatter’s power as a hitter, is a type of weighted mean. If s, d, t, and h represent the numbers of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs, respectively, that a player achieves in n times at bat, then the player’s slugging average is $\frac{s+2d+3t+4h}{n}$.

Find the players slugging average for the season or seasons described. Slugging averages are given to the nearest thousandth.

Babe Ruth. in his first season with the New York Yankees (1920), was at hat 458 times and achieved 73 singles. 36 doubles, 9 triples, and 54 home runs. In this season, Babe Ruth achieved his highest slugging average, which stood as a major league record until 2001.