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Probability
Level
1
A fair coin is tossed repeatedly. If tail appears on the first four tosses ,then the probability of head appearing on fifth toss, equals ?
31/32
1/2
1/32
1/5
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1 solution
The question is just asking the likelihood of a heads appearing on the fifth toss of a coin. The previous outcomes do not affect the outcome of the fifth toss, so the probability of getting a head on the fifth toss is just that of getting a head on just one toss, which is half of the time.