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Before each football game, a coin is flipped to decide who will be on offense and defense. If the last four coin tosses results in heads, which is most likely to happen on the next toss?A) most likely heads B) most tailsC) each results is equally likely to occur

Before each football game, a coin is flipped to decide who will be on offense and-example-1
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In coin tosses, all coin tosses are independed from each other. So, it doesn~t matter how many heads or tails happened befores or afterm it will always be the same probability for both.

So, the correct alternative is C: each result is equally likely to occur.

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