SOLUTION: A professional basketball player makes 86% of the free throws he tries. Assuming this percentage will hold true for future attempts, find the probability that in the next 8 tries,
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Question 1135692: A professional basketball player makes 86% of the free throws he tries. Assuming this percentage will hold true for future attempts, find the probability that in the next 8 tries, the number of free throws he will make is exactly 5 Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) (Show Source):
On your TI-84 or TI-83 it's 8 trials, p=0.86, x value=5
binompdf(8,0.86,5) <--find that @ 2ND VARS, scroll down to A:binompdf(
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0.0722876972
Edwin
