Video Transcript
The experimental probability that a
coin lands on heads is four-sevenths. If the coin landed on tails 30
times, how many times was it tossed in the experiment?
This question is about experimental
probability. We recall that experimental
probability can be written as a fraction, where the numerator is the number of
trials in which the outcome occurs and the denominator is the total number of
trials. We are told that the probability
that the coin lands on heads is four-sevenths. Since probabilities sum to one, the
probability of the coin landing on tails is one minus four-sevenths, which is equal
to three-sevenths.
We are also told that the coin
landed on tails 30 times. If we let the total number of
trials be 𝑛, then we have three over seven is equal to 30 over 𝑛. To solve for 𝑛, we begin by cross
multiplying. As seven multiplied by 30 is 210,
we have three 𝑛 is equal to 210. Dividing through by three, we have
𝑛 is equal to 70. We can therefore conclude that the
coin was tossed 70 times in the experiment.
