Today Puzzle #701
Puzzle No. 701鈥� Friday 20 March 2020
Tomorrow is the final episode of the current Celebrity Mastermind series. John Humphrys will be quizzing our puzzle writer Bobby Seagull on England at FIFA World Cups. Striker Gary Lineker converted 4 out of 5 penalties for England. Each penalty kick is independent of the other. Assuming there is an 80% chance of scoring any individual penalty, what is the probability Lineker scores 5 consecutive penalties?
Today’s #PuzzleForToday has been set by Bobby Seagull, school maths teacher, author and Cambridge University Doctorate student.
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33% probability that Gary Lineker scores 5 consecutive penalties
(0.8)^5 = 0.32768
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