{"id":245299,"date":"2025-07-05T20:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=245299"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:43:36","slug":"during-michael-jordans-nba-career-1984ae2003-he-averaged-a-free-throw-completion-percentage-of-83-5-in-regular-season-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/during-michael-jordans-nba-career-1984ae2003-he-averaged-a-free-throw-completion-percentage-of-83-5-in-regular-season-play\/","title":{"rendered":"During Michael Jordan’s NBA career (1984\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2003), he averaged a free throw completion percentage of 83.5% in regular season play."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During Michael Jordan’s NBA career (1984\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2003), he averaged a free throw completion percentage of 83.5% in regular season play. If Jordan threw 8,772 free throws in his career, how many completed free throws did he make?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To calculate how many completed free throws Michael Jordan made, you need to multiply his total free throw attempts by his free throw completion percentage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formula:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Completed Free Throws=Total Free Throws Attempted\u00d7Free Throw Completion Percentage\\text{Completed Free Throws} = \\text{Total Free Throws Attempted} \\times \\text{Free Throw Completion Percentage}Completed Free Throws=Total Free Throws Attempted\u00d7Free Throw Completion Percentage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given Information:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Total Free Throws Attempted = 8,772<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Free Throw Completion Percentage = 83.5% (which we convert to a decimal by dividing by 100)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Step-by-step Calculation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
      \n
    1. Convert the percentage to a decimal: 83.5%=83.5100=0.83583.5\\% = \\frac{83.5}{100} = 0.83583.5%=10083.5\u200b=0.835<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Multiply the total free throws attempted by the completion percentage: Completed\u00a0Free\u00a0Throws=8,772\u00d70.835=7,323.72\\text{Completed Free Throws} = 8,772 \\times 0.835 = 7,323.72Completed\u00a0Free\u00a0Throws=8,772\u00d70.835=7,323.72<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Since you can’t make a fraction of a free throw, we round this number to the nearest whole number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Final Answer:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Completed Free Throws\u22487,324\\text{Completed Free Throws} \\approx 7,324Completed Free Throws\u22487,324<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Michael Jordan attempted 8,772 free throws during his career, and his free throw completion rate was 83.5%. By multiplying the number of attempts by his shooting accuracy (83.5%), we find that he completed approximately 7,324 free throws in total. This calculation is a simple application of percentage to real-life data, showing how efficient Jordan was at the free throw line throughout his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      During Michael Jordan’s NBA career (1984\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2003), he averaged a free throw completion percentage of 83.5% in regular season play. If Jordan threw 8,772 free throws in his career, how many completed free throws did he make? The Correct Answer and Explanation is: To calculate how many completed free throws Michael Jordan made, you need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}