Probability for fun

mzkidd

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This is for fun. Any genius' out there lol?:p

Suppose a basketball player, Player A, made 80% of her free throw attempts last season and that she continues to shoot free throws at the same rate. Assume that free throw attempts are independent. Let the random variable X be the number of free throws that player A makes in her next 15 attempts.

a) What is the distribution of X?
b) Find the mean and standard deviation of X.
c) Find the probability that player A makes exactly 10 free throws.
d) Find the probability that player A makes at least 8 free throws.
 
Binomial distribution

mean = 12
std dev = 1.54919.....

exactly 10 = 0.103182294319104
atleast 8 = 0.19999999999999996


Sorted ;)

... If this is for homework you really should learn it.
 
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