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A coin is weighted so that tails is twice as likely as heads to occur. What probability should we assign to heads?
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A coin is weighted so that tails is twice as likely as heads to occur. What probability should we assign to heads? to tail?
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Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the probability of obtaining a head be p. Then the probability of getting a tail is 2p. They add up to 1 (disjoint, either must happen), so p + 2p = 1, p = 1/3 and 2p = 2/3.
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