Question
A fair coin is tossed 8 times. The heads appear 5 times. Find the experimental probability of getting heads.
8/5
5/8
4/8
5/2
8/5
5/8
4/8
5/2
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The experimental probability of an event is calculated by dividing the number of times the event occurs by the total number of trials.
In this case, the event "getting heads" occurred 5 times out of a total of 8 tosses.
So, the experimental probability \( P \) of getting heads is:
\[
P(\text{heads}) = \frac{\text{Number of heads}}{\text{Total tosses}} = \frac{5}{8}
\]
Thus, the correct answer is \( \frac{5}{8} \).
In this case, the event "getting heads" occurred 5 times out of a total of 8 tosses.
So, the experimental probability \( P \) of getting heads is:
\[
P(\text{heads}) = \frac{\text{Number of heads}}{\text{Total tosses}} = \frac{5}{8}
\]
Thus, the correct answer is \( \frac{5}{8} \).