Solution for Section 6.1 Question 1b

1b) Once again the sample space S is {HH, HT, TH, TT}. Let E be the event of obtaining one head and one tail, so E = {HT, TH}.
Hence P(E) = n(E) / n(S) = 2/4 =1/2.

Since each toss is independent of all previous tosses the probability of obtaining a mixture of a head and a tail five times in a row is
1/2 ´ 1/2 ´ 1/2 ´ 1/2  ´ 1/2 = 1/32.

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