An experiment consists of tossing a fair coin (heads H, or tails T) three times and observing the outcome. Which of the following statements is false? (a) The outcome (H, H, T) is a simple event. (b) The sample space S consists of 2^3 = 8 simple events. (c) The probability of event ‘Observe more than one heads.’ is 1/2. (d) The event ‘Observe more than one heads.’ is a simple event.

An experiment consists of tossing a fair coin (heads H, or tails T) three times and observing the outcome. Which of the following statements is false? (a) The outcome (H, H, T) is a simple event. (b) The sample space S consists of 2^3 = 8 simple events. (c) The probability of event ‘Observe more than one heads.’ is 1/2. (d) The event ‘Observe more than one heads.’ is a simple event.

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(2) An experiment consists of tossing a fair coin (heads H, or tails T) three times and observing the outcome. Which of the following statements is false?

(a) The outcome (H, H, T) is a simple event.

(b) The sample space S consists of 2^3 = 8 simple events.

(d) The event ‘Observe more than one heads.’ is a simple event.

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