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She got 40 heads and 60 tails.She said experimental probability of getting heads was 40/60.Explain and correct her error

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This is wrong because experimental probability is the ratio of the number of times the event is occuring to the total number of trails. So it would be 40/100 because she got heads 40 times but the total amount altogether is 100 because 40+60 is the total.

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