A coin is tossed 758 times and comes up heads 409 times. Use the Empirical Method to approximate the probability that the coin comes up heads.
A) 0.35
B) 0.46
C) 0.54
D) 0.5

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The Empirical Method approximates the probability of an event by dividing the number of times the event occurs by the total number of trials. Here, heads came up 409 times out of 758 tosses, so the probability is 409/758 ≈ 0.54.

A Coin Is Tossed 758 Times and Comes Up Heads