Table of Contents
- 1 What is the probability of getting 7 tails?
- 2 How many outcomes are possible when a coin is flipped seven times?
- 3 What is the probability of obtaining at least one tail when a coin is flipped seven times enter the probability as a fraction?
- 4 What is the probability of getting tail on fair coin?
- 5 What is the probability of getting all heads or at least one tail?
- 6 How many equally possible outcomes are there for flipping a coin?
What is the probability of getting 7 tails?
1 in 128
Thus, the probability of flipping seven tails in a row in seven flips is 1 in 128. This method soon becomes quite tedious and even by the time you get to the case of 15 flips (let alone 100 flips), this method becomes impractical.
How many outcomes are possible when a coin is flipped seven times?
How many total possible outcomes are there? Are there 14 outcomes? Because the coin is tossed 7 times and you get 2 outcomes (head or tail) for each one.
What is the probability of obtaining at least one tail when a coin is flipped seven times enter the probability as a fraction?
2 Answers By Expert Tutors. P(no tails) = 1/27 so the P(at least 1 tail in 7 tosses) = 1 – 2-7 and you can simplify this, giving a fraction.
How many ways can you flip a coin 10 times?
1,024 possible
There are 1,024 possible sequences of heads and tails in 10 tosses of a coin; 252 of them contain exactly 5 heads.
What is the probability of getting 3 heads in 10 coin flips?
0.95 is the probability of getting 3 Heads in 10 tosses. Exactly 3 heads in 10 Coin Flips The ratio of successful events A = 120 to total number of possible combinations of sample space S = 1024 is the probability of 3 heads in 10 coin tosses.
What is the probability of getting tail on fair coin?
Let’s first calculate the probability of getting tail on fair coin when you flip it one time. If we flip the the fair coin 1 time then the probability of getting tail is 1/2. Now here we are flipping it 10 times. Then it would be, The probability of flipping coin 10 times and getting all tail is 1/1024 i.e 0.09765 \% (It’s highly unlikely)
What is the probability of getting all heads or at least one tail?
Since both heads and tails have a probability of (1/2) and each toss is an independent event we get (1/2)^10 = 1/1024 for our probability that on 10 tosses we would get all heads or all tails. To find ” at least one tail ” subtract this amount from 1 .
How many equally possible outcomes are there for flipping a coin?
Assuming a fair coin fairly flipped 10 times, there are 2^10 = 1,024 equally possible outcomes. Number of ways to get 1H = 10!/ (9!) (1!) = 10.