SOLUTION: A basketball player makes 80% of his free throws. We set him on the free throw line and told him to shoot free throws until he misses. Let the random variable X be the number of fr
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Question 1183845: A basketball player makes 80% of his free throws. We set him on the free throw line and told him to shoot free throws until he misses. Let the random variable X be the number of free throws taken by the player until he misses.
Assuming that his shots are independent, what is the probability of this player missing a free throw for the first time on the fifth attempt?
0.08192
0.0016
0.00128
0.4096
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
He makes his first four free throws -- probability 0.8 each.
Then he misses hs fifth -- probability 0.2.
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