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List all events associated with the random experiment of tossing of two coins. How many of them are elementary events.
Solution
The events associated with the random experiment of tossing of two coins are HH, HT, TH and TT. These 4 events are also the elementary events when two unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously.
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