MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
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Consider a random experiment of tossing a fair coin 5 times in a row. Let H and T denote the events that the coin lands head and tail, respectively. Let A be event of getting heads on the first three tosses. Which of the following is incorrect? A) event a= [HHHHH, HHHHT HHHTH, HHHTT] B) event a’ has total of 12 outcomes C) P(A) = 1/8 D) each outcome in event A has an equal probability of 1/32
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