Question 147

A fair coin is tossed repeatedly. If tail appears on first four tosses, then the probability of head appearing onfifth toss is

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Ocurrence of Heads/Tails appearing on a coin tossed is independent of the previous results.

Therefore , the probability of head appearing on fifth toss is same as any other time = (1/2) Ans.

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