SOLUTION: Explain how using a spinner would help find the expeimental probability that a soccer player will score a goal on a penatly kick. Suppose the player makes 75% of his penatly kicks.

Question 142909: Explain how using a spinner would help find the expeimental probability that a soccer player will score a goal on a penatly kick. Suppose the player makes 75% of his penatly kicks.

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Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you made a spinner that was two colors, one red the other blue. And the blue covered 3/4 of the spinner, then you could model penalty kick success using that spinner. Every tie you spun and ended up on blue, that would be a score. On red is a block or miss.

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