coin toss
GATE Electronics & Communication · Probability & Stats · 2009-2021
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All concepts →A box contains the following three coins. I. A fair coin head on one face and tail on the other face. II. A coin with heads to both the faces. III. A coin with tails on both the fa...
The two sides of a fair coin are labelled as 0 and 1 . The coin is tossed two times independently. Let $M$ and $N$ denote the labels corresponding to the outcomes of those tosses....
Let the random variable $$X$$ represent the number of times a fair coin needs to be tossed till two consecutive heads appear for the first time. The expectation of $$X$$ is _______...
A fair coin is tossed repeatedly till both head and tail appear at least once. The average number of tosses required is ________.
You are given three coins: one has heads on both faces, the second has tails on both faces, and the third has a head on one face and a tail on the other. You choose a coin at rando...
A fair coin is tossed repeatedly until a 'Head' appears for the first time. Let L be the number of tosses to get this first 'Head'. The entropy H (L) in bits is _______________.
An unbiased coin is tossed an infinite number of times. The probability that the fourth head appears at the tenth toss is
A fair coin is tossed till a head appears for the first time. The probability that the number of required tosses is odd, is
A fair coin is tossed independently four times. The probability of the event ''The number of times heads show up is more than the number of times tails show up'' is
A fair coin is tossed $$10$$ times. What is the probability that only the first two tosses will yield heads?