Question

A coin is flipped 5 times. The coin comes up tails 3 times. What is the experimental probability of the coin coming up tails?

Answer 1

`\boxed{0.6}`

`\text {the experimental probability of the coin coming up tails would be \boxed {0.6}}`

Before we solve, let's begin to understand this question.

1) Determine what the question is asking, the question requires us to determine the experimental probability of the coin coming up tails.

2) Before we begin solving this problem, let's understand what experimental probability is, an experimental probability is the ratio of the number of events to the trial, it is represented as a fraction which then is converted into a decimal.

Let's begin to solve.

1) Break the problem apart.

"A coin is flipped 5 times."

This would be the number of total events.

2) Break the problem apart

"The coin comes up tails 3 times"

This is the outcome

3) Therefore the fraction would be.

`(3)/(5)`

4) Now that we have our fraction, we need to convert this into a decimal.

`(3)/(5) = 0.6`

Hence, the experimental probability of the coin coming up tails would be
`\boxed {0.6}`

Answer 2

Probability is the number of desired outcomes over the total number of outcomes. In this case, tails came up 3 times and the coin was flipped a total of 5 times. Therefore the experimental probability is 3/5.