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by phazmatis 4547 days ago
So, I think that tge question is ambiguous, and a little more direction could clear it up. If you want to know the probability, taking into account the 10 heads results thus far, I would tell the interviewee, "I am going to do this process repeatedly (picking a coin and flipping 10 times), and I'm going to keep track of what percentage do the all one side thing. What will that percentage be approximately?".
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That's not ambiguous if the applicant has taken a basic college statistics course, which is what the question is intended to determine. The term "probability" has more precise definitions in mathematics than in everyday language.
Ah, that's the part I was missing. Thanks