When do you get about half heads or not when flipping N coin
When do you get \"about half heads,\" or not, when flipping N coins? When you flip 4 coins, the probability of getting half heads is 0.38. Or put another way, the probability is 0.38 of finding that half the coins you flipped are heads. Likewise, the probability is 0.25 of finding that one fourth of the coins is heads. So, with four coins, the most likely outcome (the most probably state) is getting half heads, BUT the chance of getting one head (or one tail and three heads as well) is not all that much smaller, at 0.25. The charts show the probabilities for getting various fractions of heads for flipping four and for flipping eight coins. Describe the differences between the cases of four coins and eight coins with respect to how the probability of getting one-fourth heads compares to one-half heads changes when going from four to eight coins. When the number of coins flipped, N, gets large You can use the fundamental idea of probability of a given state, restated here,
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