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A fair coin is tossed three time sin succession. the set of equally likely outcomes is {hhh,hht,hth,thh,htt,tht,tth,ttt}. find the probabilty of getting exactly zero tails

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loser5496
There are 8 possible outcomes so that means the probability will have a denominator of 8.

Now, there is only one of the eight outcomes that has zero tails.

Therefore the probability of getting zero tails after tossing a fair coin three times in succession is

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[tex] \frac{1}{8} [/tex]