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Last One Standing printable sheet
Imagine a school assembly with 250 students. Everyone stands up and flips a coin. People with tails sit down. People with heads flip again.
Do you think anyone will get 6 heads in a row?
How many heads in a row do you expect the last one standing to have flipped?
Can you explain your reasoning?
Here is an animation for you to explore what happens when different sizes of school assembly gather and carry out the experiment.
Now that you have had the chance to explore, do your answers and reasoning to the questions above change at all?
How many people would you need to have in a school assembly for you to expect there to be someone still standing after ten flips?
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