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you toss a coin four times. what's the probability of tossing tails exactly once? is this an unusual event?

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Explanation:

Four tosses of the coin result in 2^4 = 16 possible outcomes of which FOUR

will have ONE tails :

HHHT

HHTH
HTHH
THHH so 4 out of 16 = 4/16 = 1/4 Not very unusual

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