If you flip a coin what is the probability that you will get heads? That sounds like an easy enough question - 50% right? Well theoretically that would be correct. However, we did some experimental probability and ended up with slightly different results.
Each student was asked to flip a coin 50 times. Fortunately she showed us how to do that on our calculators so that we didn't actually have to flip a coin. In my trial I got 23 heads and 27 tails, so not quite 50%, but close. We added up everyone's coin tosses and again didn't quite make 50%. Out of 700 coin tosses 327 were heads and 373 were tails. So 46.7% of the time we ended up with heads.
Here is a great YouTube video to watch if you do not know how to use the coin toss feature on your TI 84 calculator.
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