A basketball player has scored 24 successful free throws out of 60 attempts

MATHEMATICS · Subjective · AoPS · Mathematics · Proportion · Proportion

Problem

A basketball player has scored 24 successful free throws out of 60 attempts. Find the least number of consecutive successful free throws she must now make so that her empirical probability of success becomes at least

0.5

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