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If you flip a fair coin 10 times and it lands heads up 5 times, this would result in 50% probability of the coin landing heads up. Is this an example of theoretical or empirical probability?
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If you flip a fair coin 10 times and it lands heads up 5 times, this would result in 50% probability of the coin landing heads up. Is this an example of theoretical or empirical probability?

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This is an example of empirical probability, although it gives the same ratio as a theoretical probability, because we based the result on our experiment
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