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weighted coin has property that heads comes up 60 percent of time. two flips of coin is it more likely that outcome from two flips are the same or outcome from two flips are different?
15 years ago

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Answered by Reiny
prob of same (HH, TT)
= (.6)(.6) + (.4)(.4)
= .36+.16 = .52

prob of different (HT, TH)
= 2(.6)(.4) = .48
15 years ago

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