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You flip a fair coin n times and calculate the relative frequency probability of heads as number of heads/n. According to the Law of Large Numbers, what happens to this probability as n gets larger?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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You flip a fair coin n times and calculate the relative frequency probability of heads as
number of heads/n. According to the Law of Large Numbers, what happens to this probability as n gets larger?

		It gets smaller
		It gets larger
		It gets closer and closer to 0.50
		It stays the same, 0.50

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