SOLUTION: a student has flipped a coin 9 times and each time it has landed as a head. He claims that the probability of a tail on the next flip is greater than the probability of another hea

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Question 1135897: a student has flipped a coin 9 times and each time it has landed as a head. He claims that the probability of a tail on the next flip is greater than the probability of another head. true or false?
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False
Each time the coin is flipped the probabilities are:
+1%2F2+ for heads
+1%2F2+ for tails
and it doesn't matter how many heads or tails
have come up previously
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The more times the coin is flipped, though, the
totals will get closer to:
50% heads
50% tails