A Magician Has a Coin That May or May Not

question 27

Multiple Choice

A magician has a coin that may or may not be fair. The results of 30 flips of the coin are H H T H T H H T H H T H H T H T H H H T T T T T H H H H H T. For the Wald-Wolfowitz runs test, the value of the total number of runs R is ________.

• A) 8
• B) 11
• C) 16
• D) 19

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Definitions:

French Government

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Détente

The easing of strained relations, especially in a political context, between nations.

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A socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed from 1922 to 1991, formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and was a world superpower alongside the United States.