Given:
Of the 50 flips, the coin landed on heads 30 times.
To find:
The experimental probability of flipping heads and compare it with the theoretical probability of flipping heads.
Solution:
We have,
Total number of trials = 50
Total number of heads = 30
The experimental probability of flipping heads is:
[tex]\text{Experimental probability}=\dfrac{\text{Total number of heads}}{\text{Total number of trials}}[/tex]
[tex]\text{Experimental probability}=\dfrac{30}{50}[/tex]
[tex]\text{Experimental probability}=\dfrac{3}{5}[/tex]
[tex]\text{Experimental probability}=0.6[/tex]
A coin has two sides one is heads and another is tails. So, the theoretical probability of flipping heads is:
[tex]\text{Theoretical probability}=\dfrac{1}{2}[/tex]
[tex]\text{Theoretical probability}=0.5[/tex]
Therefore, the experimental probability of flipping heads is 0.6 and the theoretical probability of flipping heads is 0.5. So, the experimental probability is greater than the theoretical probability of flipping heads.
