You are bored one day waiting for class to start and you begin flipping a quarter that is on your pocket. After you flip the coin five times, you observe that heads has come up five times in a row. You thoroughly inspect the coin and sure enough, one side is heads and the other is tails. The coin seems perfectly balanced, i.e. heads and tails are equally likely. You decide to flip the coin one more time. What is the probability that the result is heads? O Less than one half O Exactly one half O More than one half

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You are bored one day waiting for class to start and you begin flipping a quarter that is on your pocket. After you
flip the coin five times, you observe that heads has come up five times in a row. You thoroughly inspect the coin
and sure enough, one side is heads and the other is tails. The coin seems perfectly balanced, i.e. heads and tails are
equally likely.
You decide to flip the coin one more time. What is the probability that the result is heads?
O Less than one half
O Exactly one half
O More than one half
Transcribed Image Text:You are bored one day waiting for class to start and you begin flipping a quarter that is on your pocket. After you flip the coin five times, you observe that heads has come up five times in a row. You thoroughly inspect the coin and sure enough, one side is heads and the other is tails. The coin seems perfectly balanced, i.e. heads and tails are equally likely. You decide to flip the coin one more time. What is the probability that the result is heads? O Less than one half O Exactly one half O More than one half
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