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Baseball, hockey, and basketball all use a seven-game series to determine their championship. Find the probability that with two evenly matched teams a champion will be found in 4 games. Repeat for 5, 6, and 7 games. Look at the historical results for the three sports. How do the actual results compare to the theoretical?

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QUESTION:

Baseball, hockey, and basketball all use a seven-game series to determine their championship. Find the probability that with two evenly matched teams a champion will be found in 4 games. Repeat for 5, 6, and 7 games. Look at the historical results for the three sports. How do the actual results compare to the theoretical?

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Given that, Baseball, hockey, and basketball all use a seven-game series to determine their championship.

Here, n = 7.

Here we have to find the probability that with two evenly matched teams a champion will be found in 4, 5, 6,7 games.

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