Flipping a Coin

Probability Level 1

If you flip a fair coin, what is the difference of the percentage to get heads and the percentage to get tails? (Just write the number)


The answer is 0.

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Jia Quan Ng by Jia Quan Ng , 21, Malaysia

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Lew Sterling Jr
Apr 4, 2015

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Jia Quan Ng
Oct 3, 2014

The coin has 2 sides. So you have 50% of getting a heads or tails. Therefore, 50-50=0

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Charles Porter
May 2, 2015

If the coin is fair, then you have a 50% chance that it would be heads and 50% that it would be tails. Since 50%~50%=0, the difference would be 0.

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soooo easy my sister could solve it

Karthika Vinod - 1 year, 2 months ago

(well she is in 7th grade)

Karthika Vinod - 1 year, 2 months ago

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