OpenStax, Contemporary Mathematics §8.7 Applications of the Normal Distribution · Example 2 · Statistics · Normal distribution

Applications of the Normal Distribution · Example 2

Let’s say we flip a coin 64 times and count the number of heads.

(a) What would be the mean of the corresponding distribution?
(b) What would be the standard deviation of the corresponding distribution?
(c) Suppose we got 25 heads, which seems a little low. At what percentile would 25 heads fall?

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