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Near the end of a close game, do National Basketball Association (NBA) players use free-throw percentages to decide whom to foul?

Probability may be estimated based on the overall pattern after many many events.

The probability of an absolutely sure bet is 100% or 1. For any probability less than that, knowing that something "can" happen is no guarantee that it will happen.

 

 
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