Let’s toss a biased coin twice and check the face of the coin. The probability for head and tail are a and b, respectively. (a) Determine the sample space. (b) Let Ti denote the event that the face is tail at i-th toss. Check if T2 and T4 are independent events

Let’s toss a biased coin twice and check the face of the coin. The probability for head and tail are a and b, respectively. (a) Determine the sample space. (b) Let Ti denote the event that the face is tail at i-th toss. Check if T2 and T4 are independent events

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and tail are a and b, respectively.
(a) Determine the sample space.
(b) Let Ti denote the event that the face is tail at i-th toss. Check if T2 and T4 are
independent events

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