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a faor coin is tossed 100 tims. the probability of getting tail an odd no. of times is....

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Profile image of nitish  bindal
13 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Aman  Bansal
13 Years ago

Dear Nitish,

Given that the coin is fair, we know that all strings of coin flips are equally likely. Exactly half of them have an even number of tails, and half of them have an odd number of tails. It follows that the probability that tails occurs is one half.

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