Question

Archie flipped a coin 10 times. The outcomes are shown in the table below. Work out the relative frequency of tails. Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form. Outcome Frequency Heads 2 Tails 8​

Answer 1

Explanation:

o work out the relative frequency of tails, we need to find the ratio of the number of times tails occurred to the total number of coin flips.

In this case, tails occurred 8 times out of a total of 10 flips.

To express this as a fraction in its simplest form, we can write it as 8/10.

To simplify this fraction, we can divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is 2 in this case.

So, 8 divided by 2 is 4, and 10 divided by 2 is 5.

Therefore, the relative frequency of tails is 4/5.