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A con is tossed n times. How many difference sequences of head and tails can you get?

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2^n

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Answer:

2^n

Explanation:

So whenever you flip a coin, you can see it as 2 nodes branching off of each existing node. so for example when you flip a coin once you're going to have 2 sequences initially H and T, now when you flip a coin again for each of those 2 sequences 2 are going to branch off of that, making the total sequences 4, and the next flip 2 sequences are going to branch off each of the 4 sequences and so on. this can generally be described as: 2^n

I attached an image describing this a bit better but the bottom line is that for each 'end node'/sequence you're going to have 2 branch off of it, thus for each coin flip the number of sequences multiplies by 2

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