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Stage 8 - Q9 - 5 marks
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A coin has produced 32 heads in 80 tosses. How many heads in the next 20 tosses would make the overall observed heads frequency exactly \(\frac12\)? Is that outcome guaranteed for a fair coin?

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Work backwards from the required final head count.

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