Usually, in sports, we expect top athletes to get better over time. We expect future athletes to run faster, jump higher, throw
farther. One thing has remained remarkably constant, however. The percent of free throws made by basketball players has stayed almost exactly the same for 50 years.1 For college basketball players, the percent is about , while for players in the NBA (National Basketball Association) it is about . (The percent in each group is also very similar between male and female basketball players.) In each case below, find the mean and standard deviation of the distribution of sample proportions of free throws made if we take random samples of the given size. Samples of 250 free throw shots in college basketball mean _________ standard error __________
