Hi! Can someone help me with these two questions? Thanks a bunch! :)
1.) What causes experimental probability to match theoretical probability? In theory heads and tails occur 50/50.
2.) Find a way to estimate the time to flip a coin 10,000 times; 100,000 times.
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1.) What causes experimental probability to match theoretical probability? In theory, heads and tails occur 50/50.
Experimental probability is calculated by conducting an experiment and tallying the outcomes to determine the relative frequency of a specific event occurring. The more times the experiment is conducted, the closer the experimental probability should get to the theoretical probability.
In the case of flipping a fair coin, the theoretical probability of getting heads is 1/2 (or 50%) since there are two equally likely outcomes - heads or tails. The reason experimental probability tends to converge towards theoretical probability is due to the law of large numbers. This law states that as the sample size of an experiment increases, the experimental probability will approach the theoretical probability.
To see this in action, you can conduct a large number of coin flips, say a few hundred or even a thousand tosses. Record the number of times you get heads and the number of times you get tails. Divide the number of heads by the total number of flips to calculate the experimental probability of getting heads. As you repeat this process multiple times, the ratio of heads to total flips should get closer to 1/2, reflecting the theoretical probability.
2.) Find a way to estimate the time to flip a coin 10,000 times; 100,000 times.
To estimate the time it would take to flip a coin a certain number of times, you need to know the approximate time it takes to flip the coin once. We'll assume each flip takes the same amount of time for this estimation.
Let's say it takes you about 2 seconds to flip a coin once. To estimate the time to flip a coin 10,000 times, you multiply the time to flip once by 10,000. In this case, it would be 2 seconds x 10,000 = 20,000 seconds. To convert this into minutes, you can divide the total seconds by 60, so 20,000 seconds ÷ 60 = approximately 333.33 minutes.
For flipping a coin 100,000 times, you would use the same logic. Multiply the time to flip once by 100,000 (2 seconds x 100,000 = 200,000 seconds) and then divide the total seconds by 60 to get the number of minutes (200,000 seconds ÷ 60 = approximately 3,333.33 minutes).
Keep in mind that these estimates are based on the assumption that each coin flip takes the same amount of time and do not account for any breaks or variations in flipping speed.