Outcomes and Events Examples Page 1

If you flip a fair coin, what is the probability of getting heads?

The probability is the number of favorable outcomes over the number of possible outcomes, or

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Since there's only one way a coin can come up heads, and two possible outcomes from any coin flip (heads or tails), the probability of getting heads on a fair coin flip is

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The only exception is if you're flipping with Cerberus to see if you can get out of entering Hades; his coin has three heads and one tail.