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if a fair coin is tossed 13 times, in how many different ways can the sequence of heads and tails appear?the sequence of heads and tails can appear ____ different ways

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if a fair coin is tossed 13 times, in how many different ways can the sequence of heads and tails appear?

Since each coin flip can have 2 outcomes (heads or tails), there are

2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2=2^13=8,192

therefore

answer is 8,192 possible outcomes

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