A fair coin is tossed five times. Which sequence is more

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QUESTION:

A fair coin is tossed five times. Which sequence is more likely, HTTHH or HHHHH? Or are they equally likely? Explain.

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QUESTION:

A fair coin is tossed five times. Which sequence is more likely, HTTHH or HHHHH? Or are they equally likely? Explain.

ANSWER:

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Here the  given experiment is tossing a fair coin five times..

Since the coin is a fair coin, the probability of getting a head or tail is equal. That is the outcomes of the experiments are equally.

That is,

P(getting H)=and P(getting T)=


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