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flipping a fair coin is said to randomly generate heads and tails with equal probability. explain what random means in this context.

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In this context, the definition of random is an unbiased result of the action of flipping said coin. It has not been tampered with, nothing has been done to change the outcome, there is nothing that with make the outcome lean to one specific answer.

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