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Question
A coin is tossed. What is the probability of getting:
a tail?
Solution
On tossing a coin once,
Number of possible outcome = 2
Favourable outcome getting a tail = 1
⇒ number of Favourable outcome = 2
∴ P(E) = `"Number of Favourable outcome"/"Number of all possible outcome"`
= `1/2`
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