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ACT Aspire Math: Heads or Tails? Actually, Just Find the Probability of Flipping Heads 4 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

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kind meaning evenly balanced is tossed five times and lands

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on heads each time What is the probability the next

00:14

coin flip will land on heads All right Whoever is

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flipping the coin either knows how to control a coin

00:22

flip It's not a thing You can't do that or

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is just really lucky The question does say that the

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coin is fair so the probability of lending on heads

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will always be fifty fifty or one half while future

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coin flip probabilities are not affected by what's happened in

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the past So that's it The answer is c as 00:00:38.994 --> [endTime] in coin flip

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