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The probability of flipping a coin and getting heads is 1:2. If you agree to flip a coin 10 times with your sibling to decide who washes the dishes and you get to choose heads each time, yet tails comes up 6 out of the 10 times, what explains this?
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Your sibling is using a double-sided coin
Experimental probability does not always match the theoretical probability.
The earth wobbled each time disrupting the coin flip.
Tails never fails.
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Experimental probability does not always match the theoretical probability.
With only 10 flips you can expect random variation. Getting 6 tails (4 heads) has probability C(10,6)/2^10 = 210/1024 ≈ 0.205 (about 20%), so it’s a plausible outcome. With many more flips the experimental proportion would tend to approach 1/2 (law of large numbers).
With only 10 flips you can expect random variation. Getting 6 tails (4 heads) has probability C(10,6)/2^10 = 210/1024 ≈ 0.205 (about 20%), so it’s a plausible outcome. With many more flips the experimental proportion would tend to approach 1/2 (law of large numbers).
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