You toss a coin 50 times and get 12 tails. What is the empirical probability of getting heads? Write your answer in percent form
To find the empirical probability of getting heads, we need to subtract the number of tails from the total number of tosses and divide by the total number of tosses.
Number of heads = 50 - 12 = 38
Total number of tosses = 50
Empirical probability of getting heads = Number of heads / Total number of tosses
Empirical probability of getting heads = 38 / 50 = 0.76
To write the answer in percent form, we multiply by 100:
Empirical probability of getting heads = 0.76 * 100 = 76%
The empirical probability of getting heads is 76%.