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Question 969341: A coin is tossed three times, with 'heads' or 'tails' recorded after each toss. The number of possible outcomes for this experiment is Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
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The first coin toss has
HT
The next has HT for each.
After two tosses, There are HH HT TH TT
The third toss has two outcomes for each of the 4. Notice how the third is HT all the way down.
HHH
HHT
HTH
HTT
THH
THT
TTH
TTT
There are 8 different outcomes.
There is 1 outcome with all heads; 1 outcome with all tails
There are 3 outcomes with 2 heads; 3 outcomes with 2 tails.
