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A student flipped a coin ten times to simulate the probability of a baby being a girl or a boy. The results are below. What can you conclude?

Girl-8
Boy-2
a.) A coin toss does not appropriately simulate the situation.
b.) There is a 20% chance that a newborn baby is a boy.
c.) For the experimental probability to be more closely align with the theoretical probability of 1/2, then more trials should be conducted.

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User Leopal
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C) the more trials conducted, the closer together the results become

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User Vikash Pandey
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