Explanation:
Theoretical probabilities can be calculated using the concept of probability. Each student has a 0.5 chance of selecting either List A or List B. Therefore, the probability of getting 27 heads and 33 tails can be calculated as:
P(27 heads and 33 tails) = (60 choose 27) * (0.5)^27 * (0.5)^33 where (60 choose 27) is the number of ways to select 27 students out of 60.
Using a calculator, we can compute the above probability as approximately 0.109. This means that if we were to repeat this experiment many times, we would expect to get 27 heads and 33 tails about 10.9% of the time.
Comparing this theoretical probability to the experimental results, we see that the observed proportion of heads (27/60 = 0.45) is lower than the expected proportion of heads (0.5) and the observed proportion of tails (33/60 = 0.55) is higher than the expected proportion of tails (0.5).
However, it is important to note that due to the random nature of the experiment, we would not expect the exact theoretical probabilities to match the experimental results exactly. In other words, there is always some amount of variation expected in the results. Nonetheless, the experimental results are consistent with the theoretical probabilities, and we can conclude that there is no significant deviation from what we would expect by chance.