Lisa flips 2 fair coins. What is the probability of obtaining two tails?

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Tharaka Arachchige asked Feb 10, 2022

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Lisa flips 2 fair coins.
What is the probability of obtaining two tails?

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1/4 as there are 2 coins each coin has 2 sides so that’ll leave the total number as 4

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1/4

Explanation:

Each coin has a probability of 1/2 of landing on tails

What you do is multiply these probabilities together to get 1/4

BigBen answered Feb 14, 2022

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