Look at the picture of the coin below.
Imagine that you throw the coin into the air. Every time you throw the coin, it has a 50% chance of landing with the face side up, and a 50% chance of landing with the building side up.
Does this mean that if you throw the coin 4 times, the coin will always land 2 times with the face side up and 2 times with the building side up? If you try this, you will see that this will not always happen - sometimes this will happen and sometimes it won't! Imagine that we threw the coin 5 times, and 4-out-of-5 times it landed with the face side up.
Statistics can help us to describe this - we would say that 80% of the time the coin landed with the face side up. However, statistics cannot help us to predict whether the coin will fall on the face side or on the building side next time we throw the coin.
Which answers below best complete this sentence? Choose 2 correct answers. The main message of the above paragraph is that statistics...
