Alex makes 20% of his hockey goals that he attempts. For a practice, he likes to shoot goals at the net until he makes one. Let X be the number of shots it takes Alex to successfully make a hockey goal. 1.Find the probability that Alex's first successful shot occurs on his 3rd try. 2.What is the mean?
Continuous Probability Distributions
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Alex makes 20% of his hockey goals that he attempts. For a practice, he likes to shoot goals at the net until he makes one. Let X be the number of shots it takes Alex to successfully make a hockey goal.
1.Find the probability that Alex's first successful shot occurs on his 3rd try.
2.What is the mean? And explain in one sentence or more, what the mean indicates here. Please do that explanation in the Show your Calculation part following this.
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