Stephen Curry is one of the best at free throw shooting and assume that he has the free throwpercentage of 90%, note that each shot is independent.What is the probability that he makes his first 5 shots?b. What is the probability that he misses 2 shots in a row (6 and 7) given that he made his first 5shots?а.What is the probability that he needs 2 or more shots to make one shot?d. What is the expected number of shots he needs to make until he miss one shot? – Note: whatis the random variable for this problem?с.

Here Given the percentage of free throw =0.9=p So Here Probability of each throw is constant…

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