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ACT Aspire Math: Heads or Tails? Actually, Just Find the Probability of Flipping Heads 3 Views
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A fair coin is tossed five times and lands on heads each time.
What is the probability that the next coin flip will land on heads?
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay match members Another question for you Coins A fair
- 00:07
kind meaning evenly balanced is tossed five times and lands
- 00:11
on heads each time What is the probability the next
- 00:14
coin flip will land on heads All right Whoever is
- 00:20
flipping the coin either knows how to control a coin
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- 00:22
flip It's not a thing You can't do that or
- 00:25
is just really lucky The question does say that the
- 00:27
coin is fair so the probability of lending on heads
- 00:30
will always be fifty fifty or one half while future
- 00:32
coin flip probabilities are not affected by what's happened in
- 00:36
the past So that's it The answer is c as 00:00:38.994 --> [endTime] in coin flip
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