Elementary Statistics 2nd Edition
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Author: William Navidi, Barry Monk
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Chapter 5.1, Problem 31E
Empirical Method: A coin is tossed 400 times and comes up heads 180 times. Use the Empirical Method to approximate that the coin comes up heads.
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Elementary Statistics 2nd Edition
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