Marcus got 37 hits in 46 times at bat during one Little League season. Laverne got 23 hits in 31 times at bat. Who was the better hitter? Explain.

Marcus is the better hitter

Explanation:

We'll need to compute batting averages for each player.

To compute the batting average, we divide the number of hits over the number of at bats.

For Marcus, his batting average is 37/46 = 0.804 approximately.

Laverne on the other hand has a batting average of roughly 23/31 = 0.742

We see that Marcus has the better batting average because 0.804 is larger than 0.742; it's similar to saying how 804 is larger than 742.