SOLUTION: If a student tosses a nickel two times, what is the probability of the nickel showing a head and then a tail?
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Question 418419: If a student tosses a nickel two times, what is the probability of the nickel showing a head and then a tail?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 4 possible outcomes:
Head and Head
Head and Tail
Tail and Head
Tail and Tail
Only one of them is a success.
John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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