A run of exactly three heads in six tosses
Question
Toss a fair coin times. What is the probability that the sequence contains a block of exactly three heads in a row (a maximal run of length , not part of a longer run)?
Short answer
. The run can start in position or . A run at an end needs a tail beside it and leaves two free tosses ( sequences each); a run in the middle needs tails on both sides and leaves one free toss ( each). That gives of sequences, i.e. .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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