Web-based exercise. The basketball player LeBron James makes about 70% of his free throws over an entire season. At the end of a game, an announcer states that “LeBron had a hot hand tonight. He made all 12 of his free throws.”

Take LeBron’s probability of making a free throw to be 0.7 on each shot. Simulate 100 repetitions of his performance in a game in which he shoots 12 free throws, using the Probability applet at the Statistics:

Concepts and Controversies Web site, www.whfreeman.com/scc7e. What proportion of the time did LeBron make all 12 of his free throws?