What does the law of large numbers (Bernoulli) predict will be the percentage of heads if you flip a coin many times. (a) If you flip a coin 500 times, about how many heads would you predict?(b) Flip a coin 100 times. How many heads did you get? What is the percentage of heads? (c) Flip the coin 100 more times. How many heads did you get? What is your percentage of heads for the 200 flips? (d) Flip the coin 300 more times. What is the percentage of heads for all 500 flips? Is this more or less than is expected?

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What does the law of large numbers (Bernoulli) predict will be the percentage of heads if you flip a coin many times.


(a) If you flip a coin 500 times, about how many heads would you predict?
(b) Flip a coin 100 times. How many heads did you get? What is the percentage of heads? 
(c) Flip the coin 100 more times. How many heads did you get? What is your percentage of heads for the 200 flips?
(d) Flip the coin 300 more times. What is the percentage of heads for all 500 flips? Is this more or less than is expected?

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