Question
An unbiased coin is tossed six times in a row and four different such trials are conducted. One trial implies six tosses of the coin. If H stands for head and T stands for tail, the following are the observations from the four trials:
(1) HTHTHT (2) TTHHHT (3) HTTHHT (4) HHHT__ __.
Which statement describing the last two coin tosses of the fourth trial has the highest probability of being correct?
Options :
Two T will occur.
One H and one T will occur.
Two H will occur.
One H will be followed by one T.
Answer :
One H and one T will occur.
Solution :
Out of six tosses, the result of four tosses is given as HHHT__ __.
For the last two tosses, the event of occurrence is: HH, HT, TH, TT
P(HT/TH) > P(TT) or P(HH)
"One H and one T will occur" has the highest probability of being correct
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