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Three coins are flipped .
What is the possibilty that all are tails

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The third coin also has a 1 in 2 or 1 2 chance of matching the coin on the first toss. Therefore the probability of tossing three coins and getting all heads or all tails is: 1 × 1 2 × 1 2 = 1 4 = 0.25 or 25% We can also show this from the results table below: There are 8 possible outcomes for tossing three coins.

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