One of the students in the introductory Statistics class in Exercise 19 claims to have tossed her

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One of the students in the introductory Statistics class in Exercise 19 claims to have tossed her coin 200 times and found only 42% heads. What do you think of this claim? Explain.

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One of the students in the introductory Statistics class in Exercise 19 claims to have tossed her

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