=+Background: Consider a mediocre basketball player who has consistently made only 50% of his free throws over several seasons. If we were to examine his free throw record over the last 50 free throw attempts, is it likely that we would see a “streak” of 5 in a row where he is successful in making the free throw? In this activity, we will investigate this question. We will assume that the outcomes of successive free throw attempts are independent and that the probability that the player is successful on any particular attempt is .5.