Question

What is the number of possible outcomes if three quarters are tossed and the total numbers of heads and tails are counted?

Answer 1

there is 4 possible outcomes

Explanation:

TTT three tails/no heads

TTH two tails/one head

THT

HTT

HHT two heads/one tail

HTH

THH

HHH three heads/no tails

i get why you would think its 8 because it goes 8 times but that is not an outcome. hope this helped :)

Answer 2

There are 8 possible outcomes if 3 coins are tossed. The sample space would be: {HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, TTT}