Question

What is the probability of flipping a coin 3times and getting 3tailsin a row?

Answer 1

Answer:

1/8

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the probability you have to name all possible results first. If you mark a result of a single coin flip as  H  for heads or  T  for tails all results of  3  flips can be written as:

Ω = { ( H , H , H ) , ( H , H , T ) , ( H , T , H) , ( H , T , T ) , ( T , H , H ) , ( T , H , T ) , ( T ,T , H ) , ( T , T , T ) }

Each triplet contains results on  1st,  2 nd and  3 rd coin. So you can see that in total there are  8  elementary events in  Ω.

| Ω |  =  8

Now we have to define event  A  of getting tails three times.

The only elementary event which satisfies this condition is  ( T , T , T )  so we can write that:

A  =  { ( T, T , T ) }

| A |  =  1

Now according to the (classic) definition of probability we can write, that:

P ( A )  =  | A|/  | Ω |  =  1 /8

So finally we can write the answer:

The Probability of getting 3 tails in 3 coin flips is  1 /8 .

Answer 2

Answer:

1/8

Step-by-step explanation:

The probability of getting tails on a single flip is 1/2.

Each of the flips is an independent event so you must multiply the probability of getting tails on each flip together.

So, your answer will look like this

$\frac{1}{2}$ x $\frac{1}{2}$ x $\frac{1}{2}$ ; which equals;

1/8