A penny is tossed. We observe whether it lands heads up or tails up. Suppose the penny is a fair coin; that is, the probability of heads is one-half and the probability of tails is one-half. What does this mean? a. Every occurrence of a head must be balanced by a tail in one of the next two or three tosses. b. If the coin is tossed many, many times, the proportion of tosses that land heads will be approximately one-half, and this proportion will tend to get closer and closer to one-half as the number of tosses increases. c. Regardless of the number of flips, one-half will be heads and one-half tails. d. All of these answers are correct.

High school seniors with strong academic records apply to the nation’s most selective colleges in greater numbers each year. because the number of slots remains relatively stable, some colleges reject more early applicants. suppose that for a recent admissions class, an ivy league college received 2851 applications for early admission. of this group, it admitted 1033 students early, rejected 854 outright, and deferred 964 to the regular admission pool for further consideration. in the past, this school has admitted 18% of the deferred early admission applicants during the regular admission process. counting the students admitted early and the students admitted during the regular admission process, the total class size was 2375. let e, r, and d represent the events that a student who applies for early admission is admitted early, rejected outright, or deferred to the regular admissions pool.suppose a student applies for early admission. what is the probability that the student will be admitted for early admission or be deferred and later admitted during the regular admission process?