Chance of the exact pattern HTHT in four tosses
Question
A fair coin is tossed four times. What is the probability that the results, in order, read heads, tails, heads, tails?
Short answer
. All ordered outcomes are equally likely, and only one of them is HTHT.
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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