14. Free-throw practice At the end of basketball practice, each player on the team must shoot free throws until he makes 10 of them. Dwayne is a 70% free-throw shooter. That is, his probability of making any free throw is 0.70. We want to design a simulation to estimate the probability that Dwayne makes 10 free throws in at most 12 shots. Describe how you would use each of the following chance devices to perform one trial of the simulation. (a) Slips of paper (b) Random digits table (c) Random number generator
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This represents Dwayne's 70% chance of making a free throw (7 out of 10) and 30% chance of missing (3 out of 10). We then draw slips one at a time without replacement until we have drawn 10 slips with numbers from 1 to 10 (representing successful shots). If we Show more…
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