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Your favorite basketball player is a 84% free throw shooter. Find the probability (as a percent) that he doesNOT make his next free throw shot.Write your answer as a percent.

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For this problem we recall that


P(X)=1-P(X^c)^{}

In this case P(X) is the probability that the player fails the shot. Susbtituting the given information we get:


P(X)=1-0.84=0.16

Answer: 16%

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