If students toss a coin 200 times each, about 68% should have proportions between what two numbers?
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Using a Normal approximation to a binomial distribution as well as the "68-95-99.7 rule " results in the conclusion that, about 68% of the time that someone tosses a coin 200 times, the result will be a proportion of heads between about
Keep in mind that this is just an approximation and we're not even specifying whether "between" means "inclusive" (including the endpoints) or "exclusive" (excluding the endpoints).
Explanation:
First, we are assuming that the coin is "fair " and tossed vigorously so that the results of the tosses are independent . Under these assumptions, we can say the probability of heads on any given toss is
The mean of this binomial distribution is
The "68-95-99.7 rule " says that about 68% of the samples from this distribution will result in values within 1 standard deviation of the mean. In this case, about 68% will result in values between