The resampling approach produces the estimate as follows: We take 10 coins, and mark one of them with a pen as being the coin that represents ”mucket" the other nine coins stand for ”not mucket." This set of 10 coins is a "model" of a situation where there is a one-in-ten chance, or a probability of .10 (10 percent), of one particular mussels being a mucket. Next, we put the coins into an urn, draw out one coin, and mark down whether or not that coin is the coin marked ”mucket". That drawing of the single coin from the urn represents the chance that any one given mussels among our twenty mussels will be a mucket.
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