Question

Isla flipped a coin 30 times. The coin landed heads up 9 times and tails up 21 times.

Part A: Based on the results, what is the experimental probability of the coin landing heads up? Show your work. (5 points)

Part B: What is the theoretical probability of the coin landing heads up? Show your work. (5 points)

Answer 1

for part a the probably is the amount of times the coin landed on head 9 over the overall amount of time 30 so the answer is 9/30 or 3/10

Answer 2

for part b, the probably of landing on a head is 1/2