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1/2. There is an equal chance of the coin falling head up or tail up.

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What is a biased coin in probability?

Probability of getting a head or tail is not equal


What is the probability of getting two head and one tail if a coin is tossed 3 times?

the probability of getting one head and one tail on three flips of a coin is 1/9


Probability of getting both head and tail simultaneously when a coin is tossed?

The probability is 50-50.


What is the probability of getting a tail on a coin and a 6 on a dice?

probability of tails on a coin is 1/2 probablility of 6 on a die is 1/6


What is the probability of getting one tail on three coin tosses?

It is 3/8.


What is the probability of getting exactly 2 tails of tossing a coin?

The probability of getting two tails when tossing a coin is zero, because the coin can only have one result. If, one the other hand, you toss the coin twice, then the probability of getting two tails is 0.25, i.e. the probability of one tail, 0.5, squared.


What is the probability of getting a tail if a coin is tossed twice?

75%. There are 3 possible ways of getting at least one tail from 2 tosses from a coin:Tail & Tail orHead & Tail orTail & HeadEach of these individual outcomes has a probability of 25% (e.g. the probability of getting a tail and then another tail is 25%). Adding the possible outcomes together gives you a total of 75%.


What is probability of getting head or tail when tossing a coin?

The probability of getting a head or a tail is, for all practical purposes, equal to 1. The only other possibility is that the coin stands on its edge - technically possible but so very unlikely that it can safely be ignored.


What is the theoretical probability of getting a head and a tail?

if you flip a coin once, the chance it will be heads is 50%


What is the probability of tossing a coin 9 times and getting at least one tail?

The probability of tossing a coin 9 times and getting at least one tail is: P(9 times, at least 1 tail) = 1 - P(9 heads) = 1 - (0.50)9 = 0.9980... ≈ 99.8%


If you toss a coin 1000 times and find that it comes up head 532 times what is the probability of getting a tail?

The probability is still 50%


The probability of tossing a coin and getting a tail and rolling a dice and getting a four?

It is (1/2)*(1/6) = 1/12