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Chauncey Billups, a current shooting guard for the Los Angeles Clippers, has a career free-throw percentage...

Chauncey Billups, a current shooting guard for the Los Angeles Clippers, has a career free-throw percentage of 75.3%. Suppose he shoots seven free throws in tonight's game. What is the standard deviation of the number of free throws that Billups will make?

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TOPIC:Standard deviation of Binomial distribution.

orchestra answered 1 year ago
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