You flip a fair coin n times and calculate the relative frequency probability of heads as  number of  heads/n. According to the Law of Large Numbers, what happens to this probability as n gets larger?

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You flip a fair coin n times and calculate the relative frequency probability of heads as 
number of  heads/nAccording to the Law of Large Numbers, what happens to this probability as n gets larger?

   

It gets smaller

   

It gets larger

   

It gets closer and closer to 0.50

   

It stays the same, 0.50

 

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