The teacher of a seventh-grade class flipped a coin 100 times. The students recorded the results in the table shown below:
Side of Coin Landed On Heads Tails
Number of Flips 56 44
Which of the following best describes the experimental probability of getting tails? (5 points)
The experimental probability is same as the theoretical probability.
The experimental probability is 6% lower than the theoretical probability.
The experimental probability is 6% higher than the theoretical probability.
The experimental probability cannot be concluded from the data in the table.
The experimental probability of getting tails can be calculated by dividing the number of times tails landed by the total number of flips:
Experimental Probability of Tails = 44 / 100 = 0.44
The theoretical probability of getting tails when flipping a fair coin is 0.5 or 50%.
Comparing the experimental probability of 0.44 to the theoretical probability of 0.5, we can see that the experimental probability is lower than the theoretical probability. Therefore, the best description of the experimental probability of getting tails in this scenario is:
The experimental probability is 6% lower than the theoretical probability.