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shawnka

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please help me to figure this out.

A proffessional basketball player has scored on 105 out of 150 free throw attempts. What is the experimental probability of scoring on a free throw?

thanks
 
Probabilities are always from 0 to 1.
Is your number in that range?
So what is the other possiblity?
 
I think you'd divide 105/150= 0.7

therefore there would be a 7/10 chnace he'd make the free throw
 
shawnka said:
A proffessional basketball player has scored on 105 out of 150 free throw attempts. What is the of scoring on a free throw?
"experimental probability" :shock:
Teachers sure like to sound important...
 
I just demonstrated a problem like this in an algebra class. After the second-to-last shot, I asked the class for the probability of hitting the next shot. They calculated as demonstrated above. I threw the last shot the wrong direction.

One does have to be able to control the experiment.
One does have to remember NOT to apply population data to a single experiment.
 
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