In a sample of 1000 flips of a fair coin, tails will always come up 500 times. True or False.

Please explain. Thank you!

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In a sample of 1000 flips of a fair coin, tails will always come up 500 times. True or False.

Please explain. Thank you!

anonymous · Answer

Well using statistics that seems to be true, however....

anonymous · Answer

Let's bring this down to just 10 flips if you flip it 10 times will it be 5 to 5?

kj4uts · Answer

Im studying statistics specifically single sample proportion

anonymous · Answer

Actually best way to do this is go get a coin and flip it 10 times does it come out 5 to 5?

kj4uts · Answer

i don't think it would come out to 5/5 all the time.

anonymous · Answer

See, that's exactly what's supposed to happen.

anonymous · Answer

In a perfect world yeah it would come out 5 to 5, since our world is anything but perfect there is no way that would happen. So on the bigger scale of 1000 flips does it always come out 500 heads 500 tails?