SOLUTION: A coin was flipped 24 times and came up heads 14 times and tails 10 times. If the first and the last flips were both heads, what is the greatest number of consecutive heads that co

Question 347105: A coin was flipped 24 times and came up heads 14 times and tails 10 times. If the first and the last flips were both heads, what is the greatest number of consecutive heads that could have occurred?
A 7 B 9 C 10 D 13

Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The total number of heads is 14.
The first and the next 12 could have been heads giving 13 total.
Same for the first and the last 13 could have been heads giving 13 total.
If it occured elsewhere only 12 could have been consecutive.

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