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Question 323706: three coins are tossed.show that the events "heads on the first coin" and the event "tails on the last two coins " are independent Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! three coins are tossed.show that the events "heads on the first coin" and the event "tails on the last two coins " are independent
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Show P(A) = P(A|B)
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P(heads on 1st of three) = P(heads of 1st of three|tails on last two)
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P(heads on 1st ) = (1/2)
P(heads on 1st of three) = (1/2)(1)(1) = 1/2
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Stan H.
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