4. A fair coin has a 50% chance of landing either Heads or Tails. a) If you flip a fair coin 5 times, what are the odds that 4 of them come up Tails? Use the formula. b) If you flip a fair coin 10 times, what are the odds that 8 of them come up Tails? Use the formula. c) Notice that 4 out of 5 is the same fraction as 8 out of 10; both would represent the coin coming up Tails 80% of the time. And yet you should have found that the answer to (b) is significantly less than the answer to (a). Explain why. Hint: it's the Law of...

4. A fair coin has a 50% chance of landing either Heads or Tails. a) If you flip a fair coin 5 times, what are the odds that 4 of them come up Tails? Use the formula. b) If you flip a fair coin 10 times, what are the odds that 8 of them come up Tails? Use the formula. c) Notice that 4 out of 5 is the same fraction as 8 out of 10; both would represent the coin coming up Tails 80% of the time. And yet you should have found that the answer to (b) is significantly less than the answer to (a). Explain why. Hint: it's the Law of...

College Algebra

7th Edition

ISBN:9781305115545

Author:James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson

Publisher:James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson

Chapter9: Counting And Probability

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 14T: An unbalanced coin is weighted so that the probability of heads is 0.55. The coin is tossed ten...

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