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Flip a coin 6 times. What are the odds for exactly 5 tails?
Posted on 8/30/23 at 9:55 pm
Posted on 8/30/23 at 9:55 pm
29
Posted on 8/30/23 at 9:56 pm to GumboPot
quote:
What are the odds for exactly 5 tails?
Depends on how ugly the other guys are at the bar.
Posted on 8/30/23 at 9:56 pm to GumboPot
350-1
Posted on 8/30/23 at 9:59 pm to GumboPot
64-1. Although the more I think about it, it’s probably 10.667 -1
This post was edited on 8/30/23 at 10:10 pm
Posted on 8/30/23 at 9:59 pm to GumboPot
6 ways of getting exactly 5 tails. So 6 out of 2 to the 6th or 6 / 64. Just under 10 percent.
Posted on 8/30/23 at 9:59 pm to GumboPot
Blue.
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:05 pm to GumboPot
EXACTLY Idontgiveashit%
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:06 pm to GumboPot
The surgeon was the boy’s mother
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:07 pm to GumboPot
288
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:10 pm to GumboPot
I’m very lucky flipping coins so for me 100%.
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:17 pm to GumboPot
9 in 100
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:18 pm to GumboPot
Tails never fails. Glad I could help.
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:22 pm to GumboPot
I’d say 1.56%
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:30 pm to GumboPot
50/50. Either it happens or it won't.
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:40 pm to GumboPot
Each event is an independent 50/50 chance. So .5 to the 6th power ! Very low odds !
This post was edited on 8/30/23 at 10:42 pm
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:40 pm to GumboPot
The same as getting exactly one heads out of six flips
Posted on 8/30/23 at 10:43 pm to GumboPot
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This post was edited on 8/30/23 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 8/30/23 at 11:04 pm to GumboPot
Congrats on posting a second math thread on the first page.
Posted on 8/30/23 at 11:16 pm to GumboPot
Whatever the odds are, they are much higher than going to Vegas and consecutively betting 6 times on "Red" on the roulette wheel and winning 5 times. Amazingly the house has much greater odds of beating you 5 out of 6 times on a basically 50/50 bet. It's really uncanny.
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