Question

Steph Curry is an NBA basketball player for the Golden State Warriors. His 2016-2017 season was not up to his previous standards, and analysts talked about it in the last month of the season. In his previous seasons, he made 1593 of 3590 three pointers attempts in 495 games, not couting playoffs. That season, he had attempted 633 threepointers with about a month to play - that number was after the 66th game (he only played in 64 of those).

a) Find the mean and standard deviation for the number of three pointers made (out of 633) based on his previous seasons.

b) That season, Curry had made 249 of his 633 shots. But in March, he was 16 of 56. Supposing his previous numbers are truly respresentative of the population, calculate the probability that he would make exactly 16 of 56 in March, less than or equal to 16 out of 56, and less than or equal to 249 out of 633.

c) Presuming he played 13 of 16 games left, project both his total attempts and total makes for that season. Hint: first address the total attempts for the season, then the total makes.

Answer 1