Question

A coin is tossed four times. Assuming the coin is equally likely to land on heads or tails, compute the probability of the event occurring. (Enter your probability as a fraction.) All 4 coin tosses are identical.

Answer 1

The probability of all four coin tosses landing on heads is 1/16.

Step-by-step explanation:

The probability of a coin landing on heads is 0.5. When a coin is tossed multiple times, we can find the probability of a specific event occurring by multiplying the probabilities of the individual tosses. In this case, since the coin is tossed four times, the probability of all four tosses landing on heads is:

P(Heads) imes P(Heads) imes P(Heads) imes P(Heads) = 0.5 imes 0.5 imes 0.5 imes 0.5 = rac{1}{16}