Tommy the Dunker's performance on the basketball court is influenced by his state of mind: If he scores, he is twice as likely to score on the next shot as he is to miss, whereas if he misses a shot, he is two times as likely to miss the next shot as he is to score. In the long term how many shots are successful? Tommy the Dunker's performance on the basketball court is influenced by his state of mind: If he scores, he is twice as likely to score on the next shot as he is to miss, whereas if he misses a shot, he is two times as likely to miss the next shot as he is to score. In the long term how many shots are successful? @Mathematics
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I thought that too, but that is not true
It is an online assessment question, thus it prompts me half is wrong.
I come up with, after making a tree of four rounds of shots, with 54 possible outcomes, he is 4/4 in 8, 3/4 in 12, 2/4 in 14, 1/4 in 12, and 0/4 in 8,
His long run probability is equal to the probability of the first shot, after that it is symmetrical.
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