Suppose that you flip a fair coin 6 times in a row and record each results. We want to find the probability that you get both heads and tails. (a) How many different outcomes can you get? (b) How many different outcomes contain both heads and tails? (c) What is the probability that you got both heads and tails?

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Suppose that you flip a fair coin 6 times in a row and record each results. We want to find the probability that you get both heads and tails.
(a) How many different outcomes can you get?
(b) How many different outcomes contain both heads and tails?
(c) What is the probability that you got both heads and tails?

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Here, the coin is tossed 6 times.

Number of outcomes=2^6=64.

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The different number of outcomes is 64.

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