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Three fair coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting all heads - Mathematics

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Three fair coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting all heads

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Solution

Three fair coins are tossed together

Sample spade = {HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, TTT}

n(S) = 8

Let A be the event of getting all heads

A = {HHH}

n(A) = 1

P(A) = `("n"("A"))/("n"("S")) = 1/8`

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Chapter 8: Statistics and Probability - Exercise 8.3 [Page 324]

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Samacheer Kalvi Mathematics [English] Class 10 SSLC TN Board
Chapter 8 Statistics and Probability
Exercise 8.3 | Q 8. (i) | Page 324

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