5.54. Use Chebyshev’s theorem and Theorem 5.3 to ver-ify that the probability is at least 35 36 that (a) in 900 flips of a balanced coin the proportion of heads will be between 0.40 and 0.60; (b) in 10,000 flips of a balanced coin the proportion of heads will be between 0.47 and 0.53; (c) in 1,000,000 flips of a balanced coin the proportion of heads will be between 0.497 and 0.503.

5.54. Use Chebyshev’s theorem and Theorem 5.3 to ver-ify that the probability is at least 35 36 that (a) in 900 flips of a balanced coin the proportion of heads will be between 0.40 and 0.60; (b) in 10,000 flips of a balanced coin the proportion of heads will be between 0.47 and 0.53; (c) in 1,000,000 flips of a balanced coin the proportion of heads will be between 0.497 and 0.503.

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

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