Question

A basketball player has a 60% accuracy rate for making free throws. During practice, this player fails to make a free throw three times in a row, but is finally successful on the fourth attempt.



Using the geometric distribution formula, what is the probability of this player successfully making a free throw on the fourth attempt? Each attempt is independent of each other and answer choices are rounded to the hundredths place.

a.) 0.04

b.) 0.60

c.) 0.40

d.) 0.10

Answer 1

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Option a). 0.04 is correct