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# What is the probability of obtaining 3 heads in three flips of a fair coin?

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1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/8 = 12.5%

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## Related Questions

### What is the probability of obtaining exactly two heads in three flips of a coin given that at least one is a head?

The probability of obtaining exactly two heads in three flips of a coin is 0.5x0.5x0.5 (for the probabilities) x3 (for the number of ways it could happen). This is 0.375. However, we are told that at least one is a head, so the probability that we got 3 tails was impossible. This probability is 0.53 or 0.125. To deduct this we need to divide the probability we have by 1-0.125 0.375/(1-0.125) = approximately 0.4286

### What is the probability of obtaining exactly four heads in five flips of a coin given that at least three are heads?

We can simplify the question by putting it this way: what is the probability that exactly one out of two coin flips is a head? Our options are HH, HT, TH, TT. Two of these four have exactly one head. So 2/4=.5 is the answer.

### What is the probability of exactly three heads in four flips of a coin given at least two are heads?

If you know that two of the four are already heads, then all you need to find isthe probability of exactly one heads in the last two flips.Number of possible outcomes of one flip of one coin = 2Number of possible outcomes in two flips = 4Number of the four outcomes that include a single heads = 2.Probability of a single heads in the last two flips = 2/4 = 50%.

### What is the probability of obtaining exactly three heads in four flips of a coin given that at least one is a head?

50-50. each toss is independent of any previous toss. if all tosses are to be heads/tails then each toss you multiply by the number of chances. i,e. 2, starting with 1. three heads in a row is 1x2x2

### What is the probability of obtaining exactly three heads in four flips of a coin given that at least two are heads?

Pr(3H given &gt;= 2H) = Pr(3H and &gt;= 2H)/Pr(&gt;=2H) = Pr(3H)/Pr(&gt;=2H) = (1/4)/(11/16) = 4/11.

### What are the odds against getting exactly two heads in three successive flips of a coin?

Three in eight are the odds of getting exactly two heads in three coin flips. There are eight ways the three flips can end up, and you can get two heads and a tail, a head and a tail and a head, or a tail and two heads to get exactly two heads.

### What is the probability that three coin flips will have at least one head?

Pr(3 flips at least one H) = 1 - Pr(3 flips, NO heads) = 1 - Pr(3 flips, TTT) = 1 - (1/2)3 = 1 - 1/8 = 7/8

### What is the probability of getting heads more than once if you flip a coin three times?

For 3 coin flips: 87% chance of getting heads at least once 25% chance of getting heads twice 13% chance of getting heads all three times

### What is the probabity of obtaining three heads?

On a fair 50-50 coin, the chance of you getting heads 3 times in a row is .5 * .5 * .5 which is 12.5% Getting exactly 3 heads out of any number of coin flips involves: (Number of Flips!/ [6 * (N-3)!]) * (.5^3)* (.5^(n-3))

### Arnold flipped a coin twice and it landed heads up both times If he flips the coin again What is the probability the coin will land heads up?

The correct answer is 1/2. The first two flips do not affect the likelihood that the third flip will be heads (that is, the coin has no "memory" of the previous flips). If you flipped it 100 times and it came up heads each time, the probability of heads on the 101st try would still be 1/2. (Although, if you flipped it 100 times and it came up heads all 100 times - the odds of which are 2^100, or roughly 1 in 1,267,650,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - you should begin to wonder about whether it's a fair coin!). If you were instead asking "What is the probability of flipping a coin three times and having it land on "heads" all three times, then the answer is 1/8.

### When a coin is tossed three times what is the probability of getting at most two heads?

The opposite of getting at most two heads is getting three heads. The probability of getting three heads is (1/2)^2, which is 1/8. The probability of getting at most two heads is then 1 - 1/8 which is 7/8.

### What is the probability that a coin that is tossed 10 times what is the probability of it landing on heads 10 times?

The probability is 0.09766%.Each toss has a &frac12; chance to be heads. To combine probabilities use multiply them. So the probability to get two heads out of two tosses is &frac12; * &frac12;, and three heads out of three tosses is &frac12; * &frac12; * &frac12;. So the exact answer is 0.5^10

### You toss three coins What is the probability of the event 3 Heads appear?

Since each event is independent (heads in one coin does not affect the probability of the other two coin flips), the multiplication rule applies: 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/8 or 0.125. So we can say the probability is 12.5%.

### What is the probability of obtaining tails and a three?

Assume the given event depicts flipping a fair coin and rolling a fair die. The probability of obtaining a tail is &frac12;, and the probability of obtaining a 3 in a die is 1/6. Then, the probability of encountering these events is (&frac12;)(1/6) = 1/12.

### Probability to get exactly 2 heads when flipping a coin 3 times?

The probability of throwing exactly 2 heads in three flips of a coin is 3 in 8, or 0.375. There are 8 outcomes of flipping a coin 3 times, HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, and TTT. Of those outcomes, 3 contain two heads, so the answer is 3 in 8.

### What is the probability of not tossing three heads with three fair coins?

The probability of something NOT happening is the complement of the probability of something happening. Since the probability that you DO have 3 heads is 1/8 (that is, 1/2 cubed), the complement is 1 - 1/8 = 7/8.

### Tommy flips a coin four times How many ways can he get three heads and one tail?

There are 4 ways to get 3 heads and 1 tail for 4 coin flips. They are: THHH, HTHH, HHTH &amp; HHHT.

### What is the probability of flipping three coins and all of them land up on heads?

The probability of the first coin landing heads is half (or 1/2). Similarly, the probability of the second and third coins landing heads are also 1/2 in each case. Therefore, the probability of having three heads is: (1/2)(1/2)(1/2) = (1/8)

### What is the probability of tossing a coin three times and getting it on heads each time?

Each toss has a 1/2 probability of getting heads. Each toss is an independent event. So three heads in a row (heads AND heads AND heads) would have a probability of:1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = (1/2)^3 = 1/(2^3) = 1/8 = 12.5%

### What is the probablity that the sequence will be heads-heads-heads if you toss a coin 3 times?

the probability of getting heads-heads-heads if you toss a coin three times is 1 out of 9.

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