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Question
If a coin is tossed two times, describe the sample space associated to this experiment.
Solution
If a coin is tossed twice, the possible outcomes are HH, HT, TH, TT.
Therefore, the sample space of this experiment is S = {HH, HT, TH, TT}.
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