Question

A fair coin is tossed 5000 times. What can you say about getting the outcome of exactly 2500 tails

Answer 1

The probability of flipping a coin

coming up heads and tails is 1/2.

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So, toss 5000 times 5000/2= 2500

heads: 2500

tails : 2500

Answer 2

Explanation:

You can't expect to get exactly 2500 out of 5000 tosses more than a few times . You will come pretty close, but that's only good in horseshoes.

Of course I'm answering this on the basis of a computer language and not actually performinig this a million tmes, each part of a million consisting of 5000 tosses.

Simulations and not completely unbiased, but based on experience, 5000 is a very small number and getting 2500 more than a couple of times is unlikely