Experiment: Toss a fair coin 3 times. Let A be the event of tossing at most 1 heads in your 3 tosses. Give the following probability as a fraction in lowest terms P(A) =

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Experiment: Toss a fair coin 3 times.
Let A be the event of tossing at most 1 heads in your 3 tosses.
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Given: A fair coin is tossed 3 times.

A is the event of tossing at most 1 head in your 3 tosses.

Both Heads and Tails are equally likely in an experiment, therefore the probability of both Heads(H) and Tails(T) will be 12 each .

The possible sample space from 3 tosses is: {HHH, HHT, HTH, THH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT}

 

 

 

 

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