A fair coin is tossed three times. What is the probability that you get Tails EXACTLY two out of the three times?  Better draw up the tree diagram for this situation. At every decision point (branching point), the coin will come up heads (H) or Tails (T) with a probability of 1/2 for each.

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A fair coin is tossed three times. What is the probability that you get Tails EXACTLY two out of the three times? 

Better draw up the tree diagram for this situation. At every decision point (branching point), the coin will come up heads (H) or Tails (T) with a probability of 1/2 for each.

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In the below tree diagram the first level of branches represent the possible results of first toss. The second and third level of branches represent the possible results of 2nd and 3rd toss of the coin.

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