Coin Flipping
a. Flip a coin. What is the probability of getting a head?
b. Do this activity.
Flip a coin 30 times. Record the outcome of each flip.
Example: Number of heads: III
Number of tails: IIII
c. Write the experimental probabilities of each event
P(head) =
P(tail) =
d. Compare the theoretical probability of the event of getting a head to its
experimental probability. Are they equal?
e. Flip a coin 60 times. Record the outcome of each flip.
f. Write the experimental probabilities of each event.
g. Are the experimental probabilities closer to the theoretical probabilities?
If you do the experiment 100 times, do you expect experimental
probabilities to get even closer to the theoretical probabilities? Why or why
not?