A basket ball player makes 70% of her free throws. She takes 7 free throws in a game, and makes 5 of her 7 throws. If the shots are independent of each other, Then what is the probability that she makes the first five and misses the last 2?

Answer 1

You want the specific case of
HHHHHMM, where H is success and M is a miss.

prob(HHHHHMM) = (.7)^5 (.3)^2
= ....