(ot) car length poll

[smithma7 at yahoo.com (Mike Smith)]

Somehow, I knew you would be answering this one, but I can't believe your statement that it's still 50-50.  You are saying that 50% of the time, all 3 coins will land all heads up (or tails up)?  Not so.  I don't know the correct answer, but I know it can't be that.  If that were the case, I'd be making money off this one in bars.
 
Mike

Patrick Bureau <txrocco@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
easy answer, since the odds of a coin flip are 50% heads or tails, there fore the possibility of 3 coins landing on either side remains 50%,
now the odds that all 3 coins land on one common side (heads or tails) beleive it or not remains 50% (quantity of coins does not change the odds)


Mike Smith <smithma7@yahoo.com> wrote:
As someone was complaining about no homework, soo...

If you flip a coin, it has a 1/2 probability of landing heads up. If you flip 3 coins, what's the probability of all 3 landing heads up? Please supply formula as well as answer.

Mike




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