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02/07/2021 11:37 am
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Why is tossing a coin considered to be a fair way of deciding which team should get the ball at the beginning of a football game?
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02/07/2021 11:38 am
Tossing of a coin is a fair way of deciding because the number of possible outcomes are only 2 i.e. either head or tail. Since these two outcomes are an equally likely outcome, tossing is unpredictable and is considered to be completely unbiased.