Question

1. ? Alicia flipped a nickel 60 times. The coin landed heads up 32 times and tails up 28 times.
Part A: Based on the results above, what is the experimental probability of the coin landing on heads up?

Part B: What is the theoretical probability of the coin landing heads up

Answer 1

A) experimental probability of heads is heads/total flips, calculate heads/total flips to get your answer

Answer 2

would it be 1.8

Answer 3

or .53

Answer 4

remember that probability cannot be over 1

# of heads = 32, total flips = 60,

32/60 = 0.53 = your answer

Answer 5

for part B) if a coin has two sides (heads and tails), what's the probability of getting heads?

Answer 6

this is very important to understand for probability

to calculate the probability of a certain outcome, we count the number of ways that thing can happen and divide it by the total # of outcomes

so for a coin flip, there are 2 outcomes total, so if we want the probability of 1 outcome (heads)

we divide 1/2 = your solution