Question

You toss a coin 5000 times and record the results. You then look through your results and find that at one point you tossed heads eight times in a row. What is the probability of getting heads eight times in eight tosses?

Answer 1

If this is a stand-alone question:

What is the probability of getting heads eight times in eight tosses?

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Because the probability of getting heads is 50% or 0.5, the probability of 8 heads would be:

.5 * .5 * .5 * .5 * .5 * .5 * .5 * .5 = .0039 or .39%

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