Question

Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones both plan to do an experiment to determine

whether a coin is a fair coin (would land heads 50% of the time). Mr. Smith
plans to flip the coin 1,000 times, but Mr. Jones only plans to flip it 10
times. Explain who is using the better method and why?

Answer 1

Mr. Smith

Explanation:

Mr Smith is using the better method because he is making use of a larger number of trials such that the result of his experiment whereby he plans to flip the coin 1,000 times, will be more accurate than the result of that of Mr Jones that only plans to flip the coin only 10 times which allows for the large number correct outcome of the flipping of the coin to balance out the few inaccuracies. Whereby when only 10 trials are used, the few number of the inaccurate outcomes will have a larger impact on the correct result of the experiment.