alleryStart learning →What does the law of large numbers say happens as an experiment is repeated more and more?
AResults move further away
BResults near the true chance
CResults stop changing at all
DResults become impossible
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Results near the true chance
1. Ten coin flips will often miss five heads and five tails by some margin.
2. As the number of repetitions grows, the share of heads settles down.
3. It moves closer and closer to the theoretical probability.
4. That is the law of large numbers, and it says nothing about any single short run.
_Source: OpenStax High School Statistics (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 "Descriptive Statistics" and Ch 3 "Probability Topics", section 3.1 Terminology_
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