Spinning a quarter With your forefinger, hold a new quarter (with a state featured on the reverse)

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Spinning a quarter With your forefinger, hold a new quarter (with a state featured on the reverse)

upright, on its edge, on a hard surface. Then flick it with your other forefinger so that it spins for some time before it falls and comes to rest. Spin the coin a total of 25 times, and record the results.

(a) What’s your estimate for the probability of heads? Why?

(b) Explain how you could get an even better estimate.

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781464108730

5th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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