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Algebra Help
Josh interrupts his dinner to help someone else's son with algebra. He uses baseball players and stats to conceptualize what the x and y in equations actually represent.
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I need some help I'm not now
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Adam
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I used to study that too
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okay let's forget all the x's and y's stuff because that was invented by some teacher that hates kids
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let's imagine that Larry Bird is going to score 10 points in a court
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okay yeah
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so how many points is going to score in the entire game
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as he just 40 points exactly
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that sounds about
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right
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yeah see okay
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1/4
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is 210 points that he's horse Network
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just as for
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right
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games
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is to y
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or X or whatever it is you're looking for I
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can do this for earned run averages
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Google percentages whatever it's pretty cool
