Question

If you flip a regular coin 100 times and get 47 tails, use the relative frequency method to assign the probability of getting a heads on any 1 toss.

a) 0.47
b) 0.53
c) 0.50
d) 0.48

Answer 1

Using the relative frequency method, if you get 47 tails out of 100 coin flips, the probability of getting a head on any single toss is 0.53. Therefore, the answer is b) 0.53.

Step-by-step explanation:

If you flip a regular coin 100 times and get 47 tails, the relative frequency method assigns a probability to the event based on the observed outcomes in those trials. To find the probability of getting heads on any 1 toss, we look at the remaining number of flips that resulted in heads. Since there are a total of 100 flips, and we know 47 of them were tails, the remaining 100 - 47 = 53 flips must have been heads.

The relative frequency of getting heads can therefore be calculated as the number of heads divided by the total number of tosses. That gives us a relative frequency of 53/100, which translates to a probability of 0.53.

Therefore, the answer is b) 0.53.