Question

A basketball coach watches video of past games and notices that one of his players is able to make baskets from a certain area 45% of the time. The coach creates a model based on this and run a simulation to predict how the player will continue to make shots from that spot. What set of numbers could be used to represent made baskets

A. 0-450
B. 1-45
C. 0-44
D. 1-44

I think it's B, but I'm not sure, can someone help?

Answer 1

Well 0-44 gives you 45 total numbers to represent made baskets, then 45-99 would represent missed baskets.

0-99 is 100 numbers total, which means if 45 represent made baskets, then 45/100 = 45%, which is his percentage.

Answer 2

I have no idea how to interpret this question, but I think @agent0smith is the only one that makes somewhat sense.

Answer 3

However, by his same logic, 1-45 is made and 46-100 are the missed.

Answer 4

@wio, I only know this because I've recently tutored an AP stats student. They use tables of numbers to represent situations.

In this case, we can use all two digit numbers from 00 to 99 to represent made or missed shots. 00-44 would be misses, 45-99 would be makes.

That way as you go through the lines of numbers, anytime you get a # from 00-44, it counts as a make, and a # from 45-99 would be a miss.

Eg. if the list of numbers was 5680640939717094, just go along looking at each two digit number to see if it's a make or miss. So 56 is a miss, 80 is a miss, 64 a miss, 09 a make and so on as you go across the list of numbers.