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A fair coin is tossed repeatedly. If tail appears on first four tosses, then the probability of head appearing on fifth toss equals
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Solution
The event that the fifth toss resolts in a head is independent of the event that the first four tosses result in tails.
∴ Probability of the requird event = 1 / 2
∴ Probability of the requird event = 1 / 2
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