SOLUTION: A basketball team won 8 games and lost 7 games. Based on these results: (show all work) a. What are the odds in favor of winning a basketball game? b. What is the probability

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Question 1177115: A basketball team won 8 games and lost 7 games. Based on these results: (show all work)

a. What are the odds in favor of winning a basketball game?
b. What is the probability of winning a game, to the nearest hundredth?
c. What are the odds against winning a game?
d. What is the probability of losing a game, to the nearest hundredth?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20059)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!






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A basketball team won 8 games and lost 7 games. Based on these results.

successes = 8, failures = 7







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d. What is the probability of losing a game, to the nearest hundredth?

This is tricky because here losing is a success! lol!



Edwin
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