Understanding Probability
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QUESTION
A fair coin flipped 10 times lands heads 7 times. Why does this not mean the probability of heads is
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A coin is flipped 100 times and lands heads 47 times. What is the relative frequency of heads?
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What is the relative frequency of an event, and how does it relate to probability?
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The number of times the event occurs divided by the number of trials. Over many trials it tends to approach the probability.
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