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Question 170251 • Probability and Statistics with Applications Honors Sem-2-FL-1210300 (2024-2025)

Josh likes to play an outdoor beanbag toss game in his spare time. On any toss, he has about a 30% chance of getting a bag into the hole. As a challenge one day, he decides to keep tossing beanbags until he makes it.What kind of result could be recorded for each trial?

Answer
A
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 successes
B
Whether Josh makes or misses one toss
C
0–3 successes
D
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, . . . attempts

Explanation

A trial continues until Josh gets the first beanbag into the hole, so the recorded result is the number of tosses he needs. He could make it on the 1st toss, 2nd toss, 3rd toss, and so on, with no fixed maximum. Therefore, the result could be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, . . . attempts.

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