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What is the probability of getting tails on two coins only

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The probability is 0.5

For 1 coin probability is 1/2
- you can get either heads or tail

For 2 coins you can still only get 1 out of the 2 options so it is still 1/2
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This states that the probability of the occurrence of two mutually exclusive events is the sum of their individual probabilities. As you can see from the picture, the probability of getting one head and one tail on the toss of two coins is 0.5.

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