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Probability with Combinations and Permutations — Unit test Answers

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Dropping a piece of buttered toast will theoretically land butter-side down with a probability of 0.65. Some students decided to test this theory and dropped five pieces of buttered toast. All five landed butter-side down. One of the students claims that the next piece of buttered toast dropped will land butter-side up because it is due to happen.

A
Yes, the students need to start dropping buttered toast to land butter up to get back to 0.65.
B
No, the probability of buttered toast landing butter-side down is 0.65 over a large number of trials.
C
No, if buttered toast lands butter-side down five times in a row, the probability must be higher than 0.65.
D
Yes, it is unlikely that five pieces of dropped buttered toast will land butter-side down, so butter up must be due.

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