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Write a paragraph discussing the following:
a. Michael says that if you flip a coin l00 times, it will have to come up heads 50 times out of the 100. Is Michael correct?
b. If the probability that a certain outcome of an experiment will occur is 30%, does that mean that when you carry out the experiment 100 times, the outcome will occur 30 of those times?

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