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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Assume that the coin is flipped 9 times. What is the probability that both heads and tails occur?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

1/4?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

nope.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

510/512?

OpenStudy (lgbasallote):

hmm

hartnn (hartnn):

it would be 1-P(only head occurs or only tail occurs)

OpenStudy (lgbasallote):

are you sure?

hartnn (hartnn):

nopes, still calculating.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

it's 510/512. (:

hartnn (hartnn):

1- (1/2)^9-(1/2)^9 yes, thats comes out to be 510/512 so yea sure its 510/512....

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the chance that they're all heads is 1/512 the chance that its all tails is 1/512

OpenStudy (lgbasallote):

careful...

hartnn (hartnn):

1-2/512 = 1- 1/256 hmm... im getting 255/256 which is same as 510/512

OpenStudy (lgbasallote):

and yet you're not very confident it's right....

hartnn (hartnn):

lol!.. i just took took time to make sure...now i m confident...

hartnn (hartnn):

did u get what i have dome @embloom ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@hartnn yes. i put in 510/512 and it was correct. thank you.

hartnn (hartnn):

welcome :)

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