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kyra brought a trick coin that landed on heads with a probability of 0.4. which frequency table would kyra most likely generate by flipping the coin many times ?

kyra brought a trick coin that landed on heads with a probability of 0.4. which frequency-example-1
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Since the probability of landing heads with the trick coin is 0.4, we have:


\begin{gathered} P(heads)=0.4=(36)/(90) \\ \\ \Rightarrow P(tails)=1-P(heads)=1-(36)/(90)=(54)/(90) \end{gathered}

therefore, the first frequency table represents the behavior of the trick coin.

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