5.3 Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox hit 0.363 in 1987. (He got a hit on...

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5.3 Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox hit 0.363 in 1987. (He got a hit on 36.3% of his official times at bat.) In a typical games, he was up to bat three official times. Find the probability distribution for X, the number of hits in a typical game. What assumptions are involved in the answer? Are the assumptions reasonable? Is it unusual for a good hitter like Wade Boggs to go zero for three in one game?

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Probability And Statistics For Engineers

ISBN: 9781133006909

5th Edition

Authors: Richard L Scheaffer, Madhuri Mulekar, James T McClave, Cecie Starr

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