Cesar is coordinator planning the Home Run Derby. You want to select players who deserve to be there and will put on a show. To begin your planning, you have had a computer create regression
models of their longest home runs in the past month. In these models, x represents the horizontal
distance in feet and h(x) represents the height of the ball in feet. How high did these homeruns go?
What was their horizontal distance? You also have their current total home runs on the season.
There are only four spots. Who would you recommend?
Machado - 13 HR
h(x) = -0.0025(x - 188) + 87
Freeman - 17 HR
h(x) = -0.0022(x - 210) +98
Rizzo - 20 HR
Stanton - 24 HR
Abreu - 19 HR
h(x) = -0.0019(x - 172)² + 55
Ortiz - 17 HR
h(x) = -0.0034(x – 174) + 102
h(x) = -0.0018(x - 242) + 103
h(x) = -0.0018(x - 193)² +68