Question

A basketball player makes 80% of his free throws. we set him on the line of free-throw and informed him to shoot free throws until he misses. let the random variable x be the number of free throws taken by the player until he misses. assuming that his shots are independent, find the probability that he will make 4 shots before he misses.

Answer 1

It will be 41% in approximate:

.8*.8*.8*.8=.4096 or 41%