distributed. An experiment consists of tossing 100 dimes repeatedly and noting the number of heads each time. The graph of the number of heads turns out to be very nearly a normal curve, with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 5. (Enter your answers as whole numbers.) (a) Within what limits would you expect the number of heads to be 68% of the time? lower limit heads upper limit heads (b) What percent of the time would you expect the number of heads to be between 40 and 60? % (c) Suppose that a particular dime arouses your suspicion by turning up heads too often. You toss this dime 100 times. How many times will it have to turn up heads in order for you to be almost 100% certain that it is not a fair coin? (Hint: Most of the data in a normal distribution fall within 3 standard deviations of the mean.)

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Assume that the results are normally distributed.

An experiment consists of tossing 100 dimes repeatedly and noting the number of heads each time. The graph of the number of heads turns out to be very nearly a normal curve, with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 5. (Enter your answers as whole numbers.)

(a) Within what limits would you expect the number of heads to be 68% of the time?
lower limit      heads
upper limit      heads

(b) What percent of the time would you expect the number of heads to be between 40 and 60?
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(c) Suppose that a particular dime arouses your suspicion by turning up heads too often. You toss this dime 100 times. How many times will it have to turn up heads in order for you to be almost 100% certain that it is not a fair coin? (Hint: Most of the data in a normal distribution fall within 3 standard deviations of the mean.)
more than  times
 

 

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