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If you toss a fair coin 90 times how many times would you expect a heads to be face up on the toss?
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Answered 2010-03-16 22:25:08
Given that this is discrete data and the probability of each outcome is the same, i.e. E(P(x=1))=0.5=E(P(x=0)), and the law of large numbers says that over many trials n the outcome of a value tends to its expectation, over 90 trials you would expect around 45 of the results to be heads. That is, n=90, E(x)=0.5, 90*0.5=45.
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if you flipped a coin 60 times how many times would you expect the coin to land on heads?
30 maybe but i say 35 or 31
If you flip a coin 20 times how many times would you expect it to land on heads?
A fair coin would be expected to land on heads 10 times on average.
How many times would you expect the coin to land on heads if you flipped the coin 700 times?
Roughly half of the time, so about 350 times.
If you flipped a coin 150 times about how many times would you expect it to land on heads?
A fair coin would be expected to land on heads 75 times.
A coin is tossed 100 times how many times would you expect to get heads?
The probability of a heads is 1/2. The expected value of independent events is the number of runs times the probability of the desired result. So: 100*(1/2) = 50 heads
Two coins are tossed 50 times how many times do you expect to get two heads?
This is a binomial probability distribution The probability of exactly 2 heads in 50 coin tosses of a fair coin is 1.08801856E-12. If you want to solve this for how many times 50 coin tosses it would take to equal 1 time for it to occur, take the reciprocal, which yields you would have to make 9.191019648E11 tosses of 50 times to get exactly 2 heads (this number is 919,101,964,800 or 919 billion times). If you assume 5 min for 50 tosses and 24 hr/day tossing the coin, it would take 8,743,360 years. That is the statistical analysis. As an engineer, looking at the above analysis, I would say it is almost impossible flipping the coin 50 times to get exactly 2 heads or I would not expect 2 heads on 50 coin tosses. So, to answer your question specifically, I would say none.
If two coins are tossed 50 times how many times do you expect to get two heads?
This is a binomial probability distribution The probability of exactly 2 heads in 50 coin tosses of a fair coin is 1.08801856E-12. If you want to solve this for how many times 50 coin tosses it would take to equal 1 time for it to occur, take the reciprocal, which yields you would have to make 9.191019648E11 tosses of 50 times to get exactly 2 heads (this number is 919,101,964,800 or 919 billion times). If you assume 5 min for 50 tosses and 24 hr/day tossing the coin, it would take 8,743,360 years. That is the statistical analysis. As an engineer, looking at the above analysis, I would say it is almost impossible flipping the coin 50 times to get exactly 2 heads or I would not expect 2 heads on 50 coin tosses. So, to answer your question specifically, I would say none.
Suppose you have an extremely unfair coin the probability of a head is ¼ and the probability of a tail is ¾ If you toss the coin 32 times how many heads do you expect to see?
Expected number of heads is 1/4 * 32 or 8 heads.
What is the probablity that the sequence will be heads-heads-heads if you toss a coin 3 times?
the probability of getting heads-heads-heads if you toss a coin three times is 1 out of 9.
A coin is flipped 60 times it lands on heads 36 times Do you think that the coin is biased?
yes the coin is biased because it turned to heads 36 times.
Suppose you toss a fair coin 75 times how many times would you expect to get heads?
A fair coin means that the probability of a head = probability of a tail = 1/2 So you would expect half the tosses to be heads, ie 1/2 x 75 = 371/2 heads. ...oooOOOooo... Having 1/2 a head doesn't seem possible, but when the question asks about expectation, it is saying: if you repeated the experiment lots of times, how often, on average, would the required result appear. So the expectation of heads when a fair coin is tossed 75 times is asking: if a fair coin was repeatedly tossed 75 times, what would be the (mean) average number of heads achieved? As more and more trials are done and the (mean) average of the number of heads got is taken, it will get closer and closer to 371/2 37 or 38 times. (Obviously, you can't have half of a time.) You will either get one or the other, and a fair coin means that either is just as likely. So, it should split evenly down the middle.
You count 58 heads when you toss a coin 10 times. If you don't know whether the coin is fair what is the probability that the next toss will be heads?
If you toss a coin 10 times and count 58 heads, you know the coin is NOT fair.
What is the probability of flipping a coin 20 times and getting 1 tails and 1 heads?
None, since that would imply that in 18 cases the coin did not show heads or tails!
If you toss a fair coin 10 times and it lands on heads 8 times what is the probability that it will land on heads?
Since it is a fair coin, the probability is 0.5
What are the odds if a coin is tossed 3 times and the out come is heads?
The answer depends on "the outcome is heads HOW MANY TIMES!"
What is the probability of flipping a coin 3 times and getting 3 heads?
The probability of flipping a coin 3 times and getting 3 heads is 1/2
Arnold flipped a coin twice and it landed heads up both times If he flips the coin again What is the probability the coin will land heads up?
The correct answer is 1/2. The first two flips do not affect the likelihood that the third flip will be heads (that is, the coin has no "memory" of the previous flips). If you flipped it 100 times and it came up heads each time, the probability of heads on the 101st try would still be 1/2. (Although, if you flipped it 100 times and it came up heads all 100 times - the odds of which are 2^100, or roughly 1 in 1,267,650,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - you should begin to wonder about whether it's a fair coin!). If you were instead asking "What is the probability of flipping a coin three times and having it land on "heads" all three times, then the answer is 1/8.
If you toss 2 coins simultaneously 400 times would you expect the deviation to be greate or less than it was in tossing them 40 times?
Less. The more times the coin is tossed, the more likely it will reflect the actual odds of .5 heads and .5 tails.
If a coin is flipped 7 times what is the outcomes?
HeadsTailsTailsTailsHeadsTailsHeads
A coin was flipped 60 times and came up heads 38 times At the 10 level of significance is the coin biased toward heads?
Possibly not - the sample of 60 times is very small.
If you flip a coin 10 times what is the posability that the coin will land on heads?
The probability that the coin will land on heads each time is 1/2. (1/2) to the tenth power is 1/1024. This is the probability that the coin will not land on heads. Subtract it from one to get the probability that it will : 1-(1/1024)There is a 1023/1024 or about 99.90234% chance that the coin will land on heads at least once.(There is a 1/1024 chance that the coin will land on heads all four times.)
When you toss a coin what is the probability it will land on heads?
the probability is actually not quite even. It would actually land heads 495 out of 1000 times because the heads side is slightly heavier
Has anyone ever flipped a coin 24 times and got all heads?
The probability of flipping a coin 24 times and getting all heads is less than 1 in 16 million. (.524) It would seem that no one has ever done that.
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