3.1 - Measuring Randomness

HandsOn Activities:

9. Lottery Game

Is the present always influenced by the past? Suppose you are flipping a coin and, by chance, flip three heads in a row. Does flipping three heads in a row affect the next flip-the fourth flip-or not? Is the fourth flip more likely to be another head? Or is the fourth flip less likely to be a head?

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