SOLUTION: if the probability of a pin landing point up is 0.4, how many times would I expect it to land point up if I were to drop the pin 200 times? how would I calculate this

SOLUTION: if the probability of a pin landing point up is 0.4, how many times would I expect it to land point up if I were to drop the pin 200 times? how would I calculate this

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Question 1065043: if the probability of a pin landing point up is 0.4, how many times would I expect it to land point up if I were to drop the pin 200 times? how would I calculate this
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if the probability of the pin landing point up is .4, then you would expect that, if you were to drop the pin 200 times, that the pin would land point up 40% of the time which would be equal to 80 times.

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