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What is the probability of flipping a coin 20 times and getting 1 tails and 1 heads?
None, since that would imply that in 18 cases the coin did not show heads or tails!
What is an experiment in math?
There are many different types of mathematical experiments in math, but the most easy one I can think of would be the Experimental Probability. Example: Flipping a coin and recording your answers to see the actual probability of landing on heads or tails.
How do you figure out the probability of 2 separate events For instance what is the probability of flipping a coin to heads and rolling a 5 on a dice?
You take the probability of each event and multiply them. In the case of the given example, your odds or flipping a head and rolling a 5 would be 1/2 * 1/6, which equals 1/12.
What is the probability of tossing exactly three tails?
well it depends on what you are tossing, if its a coin then no. it can be heads too. it would have to be a great coincidence for it to be all tails, but thats why the word probability comes in meaning that there is more than one outcome
What is the probability of a quarter?
I'm assuming you are asking what is the probability (P) of flipping a quarter.This answer really depends upon how many times up are going to flip it.If you are flipping it once, you have a 50% chance that it will land on heads and a 50% chance that it will land on tails. Either way the sum of your probabilities will add up to 1, meaning that there is a 100% chance that something will occur (see probability rules).EX: Let H= heads and let T=tails∑P= P(H)+P(T)=0.5+0.5=1However, let's say you were going to flip a coin 3 times and were wanting to know what the probability of getting at least 1 tail was. You would approach the problem this way:P( at least 1 tail)=?Next, you want to find the compliment (the opposite of what you are starting with). So the opposite of getting one tail is getting no tails. This is the same as getting all heads.P(no tails)=P(all heads)P( all heads)= P(H)3 Heads is cubed because you are flipping the coin 3= P(0.5)3 times and want all the outcomes to be heads.= 1/8By knowing that the outcome plus its compliment add up to equal 1 you get:P( all heads) + P( at least 1 tail)=1P( at least 1 tail) = 1- P( all heads)P( at least 1 tail) = 1- 1/8P( at least 1 tail) = 7/8So the probability of flipping a coin 3 times and getting a least 1 tail is 7/8. In other words, it's very likely that it will land on tails one of those three times.
