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 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.)
  • 0.10
  • c.)
  • 0.60
  • d.)
  • 0.40

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